English
Noun
body hair (countable and uncountable, plural body hairs)
- (anatomy) Hair of the body; in particular, androgenic hair, to the exclusion of facial hair and the hair atop one's head.
- An individual strand of such hair.
1984 February 11, James R. Wetter, “The Water of Your Bath”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 29, page 8:If I were the water of your bath/I would send part of me to gather/in the recess of your navel.../and there my temperature would rise to match yours/and I would move your body hairs like plants of the sea/in and out with the tide/created by your movement.
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androgenic hair
- Bengali: লোম (bn) (lōm)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 體毛 / 体毛 (zh) (tǐmáo)
- Danish: kropsbehåring (da) c, kropshår n
- Finnish: ihokarvat pl, ihokarvoitus
- French: poils du corps m pl, poils androgéniques m pl
- Garo: খিমিল (kimil)
- Georgian: ბალანი (balani), ბანჯგვლი (banǯgvli)
- German: Körperhaare (de) n pl, Körperbehaarung (de) f
- Greek: τρίχες (el) f pl (tríches)
- Hungarian: szőr (hu), szőrzet (hu), testszőrzet
- Irish: clúmh m
- Italian: pelo (it) m
- Japanese: 体毛 (ja) (たいもう, taimō)
- Javanese: wulu kalong (jv)
- Khiamniungan Naga: mài, mài
- Khmer: រោម (km) (room), លោម (km) (loom)
- Korean: 체모(體毛) (ko) (chemo)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kroppshår n
- Nynorsk: kroppshår n
- Old Tupi: aba
- Ottoman Turkish: توی (tüy)
- Portuguese: pelo (pt) m, pelo androgênico m, pelo corporal m
- Romanian: păr de pe corp m
- Russian: во́лосы на те́ле m pl (vólosy na téle)
- Spanish: vello androgénico m, vello corporal m
- Swedish: kroppshår n, kroppsbehåring c
- Thai: ขน (th) (kǒn)
- Turkish: vücut kılı
- Yámana: ačala
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individual strand of body hair