Glabrous Definition

glābrəs
adjective
Without hair, down, or fuzz; bald.
Webster's New World

Origin of Glabrous

  • From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”) +‎ -ous.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin glaber glabr- bald

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Glabrous Sentence Examples

  • The bright green, glabrous leaves are broad and oblong, about 6 in.

  • The rice plant is an annual grass with long linear glabrous leaves, each provided with a long sharply pointed ligule.

  • The young shoots of P. domestica are glabrous, and the fruit oblong; in P. insititia the young shoots are pubescent, and the fruit more or less globose.

  • Petals are generally glabrous or smooth; but, in some instances, hairs are produced on their surface.

  • The leaves are deep green and glabrous on the upper surface; in a young state earlier in the season they are silvery-grey, and silvery-white beneath.

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