beard

Noun
  1. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face (synset 105269065)
    is a type of: facial hair - hair on the face (especially on the face of a man)
    subtypes:
    • fuzz - the first beard of an adolescent boy
    • imperial, imperial beard - a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III
    • beaver - a full beard
    • goatee - a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard
    • stubble - short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days
    • vandyke, vandyke beard - a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke)
    • attilio, soul patch - a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin
    has: moustache, mustache - an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip
    is a part of:
    same as: face fungus, whiskers
  2. A tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses (synset 113111354)
    is a type of: fuzz, hair, tomentum - filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
    subtypes: awn - slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses
  3. A person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) (synset 109864809)
    is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
  4. Hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals (synset 102418916)
    is a type 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
    is a part of: caprine animal, goat - any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
  5. Tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface (synset 101957959)
    is a type of: fiber, fibre - a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
    same as: byssus
Verb
  1. Go along the rim, like a beard around the chin (synset 202693572)
    "Houses bearded the top of the heights"
    is a type of: rim - run around the rim of

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