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hairlike

adj

Etymology

From hair + -like.

  1. inherited from here
  2. derived from *kes-✻ — “to scrape, comb”
  3. inherited from *hērą✻ — “hair”
  4. inherited from *hār✻
  5. inherited from hǣr
  6. inherited from her
  7. suffixed as hairlike — “hair + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling hair

    Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair.

    • Near-synonym: furlike
    • The moss grew in a hairlike mass over the rocks.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hairlike. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at hairlike. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at hairlike

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA