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Meaning of "glabrous" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GLABROUS

Glabrous, from Latin glaber.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GLABROUS

glabrous  [ˈɡleɪbrəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GLABROUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Glabrous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GLABROUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

glabrous

Glabrousness

Glabrousness is the technical term for an anatomically atypical lack of hair, down, or similar structures. This may be natural or due to loss because of a physical condition, such as alopecia universalis, which causes hair to fall out or prevents its growth.

Definition of glabrous in the English dictionary

The definition of glabrous in the dictionary is without hair or a similar growth; smooth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GLABROUS


cribrous
ˈkrɪbrəs
cumbrous
ˈkʌmbrəs
fibrous
ˈfaɪbrəs
Imbros
ˈɪmbrəs
penumbrous
penˈʌmbrəs
scabrous
ˈskeɪbrəs
slumbrous
ˈslʌmbrəs
sombrous
ˈsɒmbrəs
tenebrous
ˈtɛnəbrəs
umbrous
ˈʌmbrəs
unslumbrous
ʌnˈslʌmbrəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GLABROUS

glabella
glabellae
glabellar
glabrate
glabrescent
glabrousness
glace
glacial
glacial acetic acid
glacial epoch
glacial period
glacialist
glacially
glaciate
glaciated
glaciation
glacier
glacier cream
glacier milk
glacier table

WORDS THAT END LIKE GLABROUS

adventurous
anhydrous
dangerous
decorous
disastrous
ferrous
generous
glamorous
glamourous
humorous
monstrous
murderous
nitrous
numerous
porous
prosperous
rigorous
treacherous
vigorous
wondrous

Synonyms and antonyms of glabrous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «glabrous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GLABROUS

Find out the translation of glabrous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of glabrous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «glabrous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无毛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

glabra
570 millions of speakers

English

glabrous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चिकना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المشعر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

голые
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

glabro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টেকো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

glabre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Glabrous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unbehaart
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無毛の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

털이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Glabrous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhẵn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உரோமங்களற்றது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिकट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tüysüz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

glabro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

naga
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

голі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spân
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λείος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snau
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of glabrous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GLABROUS»

The term «glabrous» is normally little used and occupies the 113.836 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GLABROUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about glabrous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLABROUS»

Discover the use of glabrous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to glabrous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rice Genetics IV
Glabrous hull The recessive gene for glabrous hull (gl) has been very important for the U.S. rice industry. Initially, the glabrous hull characteristic, which also confers glabrous leaves, became valued for hand harvesting and threshing of rice in ...
Gurdev S. Khush, D. S. Brar, Bill Hardy, 2001
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The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California
INFL: gen simple head, slender, glabrous; involucres 3-6 per head, 2-3 mm, gen glabrous. FL: perianth 2-3 mm, white, glabrous. Uncommon. Alpine slopes; 3000- 3800 m. c&s SNH. Perhaps only a dwarf form of var. deductum. var. westonii (S.
James C. Hickman, 1993
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Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae: ...
Dischidia verruculo- sa Scblechter (l9l6). [5] R at the nodes and adventitious; stems thin, branched, ± sparsely leafy, ± reddish-brown, densely villose when young, ± glabrous with age; L with a glabrous petiole ±2-3 mm long, lamina ovate , l.5 ...
Focke Albers, Ulrich Meve, 2002
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Molecular Analyses of the Soybean Glabrous Mutation (P1) and ...
Matt Robert Hunt. upregulation of proline production and resistance to ROS initiated cell death, which are associated with salt stress resistance in Arabidopsis (Borsani et al., 2005). This mechanism of transcript overlap leading to sRNAs has ...
Matt Robert Hunt, 2009
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The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California
widely fan-shaped, inner oblanceolate, FR: 111,3 mm, glabrous. Common. Sand or gravel, (300)50012300 rn: GB, D, to Se OR, sw ID, sw UT, nw AZ. Mar1Oct E. nortonii Greene (p. 1105) PINNACLES BUCKWHEAT (Group 1) Ann 0512 dm, ...
Bruce G. Baldwin, Douglas H. Goldman, 2012
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Manual of botany, for North America: containing generic and ...
377 • unseated, remotely denticulate, glabrous, both sides coloured alike : stipules Barrow-lanceolate, denticulate: amen Is Bower after leafing, pedaoc led, downy ; scales flat, ret use : filaments bearded at the base, twice as long as the scales.
Amos Eaton, 1829
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A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants
307. t. 270. Branches glabrous. Leaves 3-4 inches long, glabrous, pale green, petiolate. Pedicels bractless. Calyx and corolla glabrous; the latter greenish. Segments of corolla falcate. Filaments downy; anthers glabrous. Genitals exserted.
George Don, 1834
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Flora of New South Wales
I.C. Nielsen Pink Laceflower Small tree to 15 m high; trunk dark brown, ± fluted; ± glabrous except for appressed- hairy inflorescences and flowers. Leaves usually with 2-5 pairs of pinnae, rarely some leaves with only 1 pair; rachis 7-10 cm ...
Gwen Jean Harden, 2001
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Flora Capensis: Being a Systematic Description of the Plants ...
püose /"filaments pilose, the sterile as long and thrice as broad as the petals, and like them with a gland below the apex ; ovary glabrous ; style pilose. A. anómala & A. bifida? d., E. Mey. in Hb. Drege. Или. Mountain at Stellenbosch, and at ...
William Henry Harvey, O. W. Sonder, 1860
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Flora Capensis
globose, about 1 in. in diam., surrounded by an involucre of about 2 series of bracts 5 involucral bracts coloured, ovate, subacuminate, up to 4% 1in. long and 3 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous except on the ciliate margin; floral bracts 4% 1in.
William T. Thiselton-Dyer, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLABROUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term glabrous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jean Nouvel Is a Master Without a Style
At almost any mention of the Philharmonie, his shoulders slump and he passes one large hand over his glabrous scalp. Months after the ... «New York Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Expression patterns, molecular markers and genetic diversity of …
Barbarea vulgaris contains two genotypes: the glabrous type (G-type), which confers resistance to the diamondback moth (DBM) and other ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jun 15»
3
50 shades of touch
These neural fibers conduct information to the brain from the non-glabrous areas of the body (from those body parts with hairs) and are ... «OUPblog, Jun 15»
4
New Clues for Detecting Colorectal Cancers Earlier
After another session, they were given cold packs to hairless, or glabrous, regions, including both facial cheeks under the balaclava, palms ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
5
LM Dental's approach to implant care
Johannson RS, Westline G. Roles of glabrous skin receptors and sensorimotor memory in automatic control of precision grip when lifting ... «RDH, Apr 15»
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Lexus RX300: A Classic Car
Inside was a glabrous cream leather interior with super comfortable adjustable seating, memory, and fine walnut trim. And the backseat (as this ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
7
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall: review
... in the air, incendiary, like cordite”; the belly of a newborn baby is “tight under his soft skin, glabrous, like stone wrapped in chamois leather”. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
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Zana: Did DNA Tests Show 19th Century 'Half Human, Half Ape …
Needless to say, modern Sub-Saharan Africans rank among the more prominently glabrous (smooth-skinned and hairless) of human races and ... «The Inquisitr, Apr 15»
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Malcom Bridge Elementary Relay for student with cancer
The 9-year-old boy's black-framed glasses accentuate a bare, glabrous scalp and a cherubic smile that will outlive the disease that plagues his ... «Oconee Enterprise, Apr 15»
10
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
(Of a recently fed baby: “His belly is tight under his soft skin, glabrous, like stone wrapped in chamois leather.”) Her close observations of wolf ... «The Sunday Times, Mar 15»

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