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See definition of villous on Dictionary.com
  • as inhairy
  • as inpilose

synonyms for villous

  • furry
  • fuzzy
  • shaggy
  • unshaven
  • woolly
  • hirsute
  • bearded
  • bewhiskered
  • bristly
  • bushy
  • downy
  • fleecy
  • flocculent
  • fluffy
  • lanate
  • pileous
  • piliferous
  • pilose
  • pubescent
  • rough
  • stubbly
  • tufted
  • unshorn
  • whiskered
On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to villous, such as: furry, fuzzy, shaggy, unshaven, woolly, and hirsute.

antonyms for villous

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  • smooth
  • bald
  • clean
  • hairless
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    How to use villous in a sentence

    Villous: Beset with short, undivided, hair-like extensions (Fig. 150, d).
    THE ELEMENTS OF BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUEJOHN WILLIAM HENRY EYRE
    Before leaving the inner aspect of the pedal wing it supplies a deep branch to the heel and the villous tissue.
    DISEASES OF THE HORSE'S FOOTHARRY CAULTON REEKS
    Achenes top-shaped, 5-costate, villous; pappus of 5–10 long thin scales, awn-tipped by the excurrent nerve.
    THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAY
    Leaves linear, frequently involute, and the ligule or throat of the sheath bearded with long villous hairs.
    THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAY
    The papillary cancers of the skin and the villous cancers of mucous membranes are thus distinguished.
    A SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE BY AMERICAN AUTHORS, VOL. IVARIOUS
    The first glume is rigidly coriaceous, gradually narrowed from a villous base to an erect scabrid awn, 1-nerved.
    A HANDBOOK OF SOME SOUTH INDIAN GRASSESRAI BAHADUR K. RANGA ACHARIYAR
    The leaf-sheath is somewhat tight, glabrous, membranous at the mouth which is villous.
    A HANDBOOK OF SOME SOUTH INDIAN GRASSESRAI BAHADUR K. RANGA ACHARIYAR
    Spikelets are 2- to 3-flowered, distichously racemed, narrowly turbinate, villous.
    A HANDBOOK OF SOME SOUTH INDIAN GRASSESRAI BAHADUR K. RANGA ACHARIYAR
    He himself introduced a catheter, and on withdrawing it a piece of villous tissue was found.
    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 648, JUNE 2, 1888.VARIOUS
    The pistillum is similarly dotted; the labellum internally striated, trifid, and villous at the apex.
    THE MISSION TO SIAM, AND HU THE CAPITAL OF COCHIN CHINA, IN THE YEARS 1821-2GEORGE FINLAYSON
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    WORDS RELATED TO VILLOUS

    • bearded
    • bewhiskered
    • bristly
    • bushy
    • downy
    • fleecy
    • flocculent
    • fluffy
    • furry
    • fuzzy
    • hirsute
    • lanate
    • pileous
    • piliferous
    • pilose
    • pubescent
    • rough
    • shaggy
    • stubbly
    • tufted
    • unshaven
    • unshorn
    • villous
    • whiskered
    • woolly
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