FACIAL HAIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does facial hair mean? 

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

1. hair on the face (especially on the face of a man)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FACIAL HAIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hair on the face (especially on the face of a man)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("facial 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "facial hair"):

beard; face fungus; whiskers (the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face)

moustache; mustache (an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip)

burnside; mutton chop; side-whiskers; sideburn (facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off))

 Context examples 

They include: • Acne • Breast growth and shrinking of testicles in men • Voice deepening and growth of facial hair in women • High blood pressure • Heart problems, including heart attack • Liver disease, including cancer • Kidney damage • Aggressive behavior

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