Hair (disambiguation)

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Hair typically is a protein filament characteristic of mammals or a mass of such filaments on the skin of humans (in other mammals the mass is usually referred to as fur).

Hair, may also informally refer to slender outgrowths (trichomes) of plants or the bristle-like setae of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other organisms. Such hairs are totally unlike those of mammals in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

Hair may also refer to:

In entertainment and media

In people

In other uses

  • Hair's breadth or in equivalent terms (such as a cat's hair) a traditionally and colloquially used unit of distance, approximately 75 micrometers

See also

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