GUARD HAIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guard hair mean? 

• GUARD HAIR (noun)
  The noun GUARD HAIR has 1 sense:

1. coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals

  Familiarity information: GUARD HAIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUARD HAIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("guard hair" is a kind of...):

hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)

Holonyms ("guard hair" is a part of...):

fur (dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel))