Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Androgenic hair growing in the armpit, normally beginning at the onset of, or shortly after, pubarche.

    Achselhaar

  2. (countable, usually)A single strand of axillary hair.

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
armpit hair:

Origin

From axillary (“adjacent or pertaining to the armpit, axilla, or shoulder”) + hair.

From axillary (“adjacent or pertaining to the armpit, axilla, or shoulder”) + hair.

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Forms

plural: axillary hairs
Singularaxillary hair
Pluralaxillary hairs

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedpubic hair

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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