nose hair
nose hair · nose hairs
Hair follicles inside the nostrilsHair follicles inside the nostrils.
» Tom had some huge nose hairs.
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2 senses(uncountable)Hair follicles inside the nostrils.
(countable)One such follicle.
Examples
4 sentencesTom had some huge nose hairs.
Tom has a lot of nose and ear hairs.
She pulled out some nose hairs to create tears and then knocked on the door.
A black race, they had thick lips, flattened noses and frizzy hair resembling, in these ways, the blacks now living on Earth.
Forms
plural: nose hairsSynonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.