Vellus

Word VELLUS
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The fine hair present on the body before puberty. noun

In botany, the stipe of certain fungi. noun

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The word "vellus" in example sentences

I imagined her hair now as something fine, short, almost like vellus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The growth of lots of vellus hair, for example, can be a sign of polycystic ovarian syndrome. ❋ Ellen Marmur (2009)

Many Asian women have dark peach fuzz or vellus hairs on their cheeks. ❋ Ellen Marmur (2009)

Hair dissipates in the center, in a Christmas tree pattern, and this happens as hormones wane and the strand caliber reverts to that of weaker, vellus hair. ❋ Ellen Marmur (2009)

It won't take seed and grow: cells clot like sand, the vellus curling from both ends in tendrils. ❋ Lemon Hound (2007)

Aureum vellus, procer閟que Gr鎐os, quos sibi adiunxit comites Ianson ❋ Unknown (2003)

Huic commissum erat vellus illud aureum quod Phrixus ólim ibi relíquerat. ❋ John [Editor] Kirtland (N/A)

Tum é náví égressus ad régem Peliam, quí régnum adhúc obtinébat, statim sé contulit, et vellere aureó mónstrátó ab eó postulávit ut régnum sibi tráderétur; Peliás enim pollicitus erat, sí Iásón vellus rettulisset, sé régnum eí tráditúrum. ❋ John [Editor] Kirtland (N/A)

Argonautae vénissent, írá commótus est et diú negábat sé vellus tráditúrum esse. ❋ John [Editor] Kirtland (N/A)

Hóc factó ad locum appropinquávit, et dracónem, quí faucibus apertís éius adventum exspectábat, venénó sparsit; deinde, dum dracó somnó oppressus dormit, Iásón vellus aureum dé arbore déripuit et cum ❋ John [Editor] Kirtland (N/A)

At réx Aeétés, quí iam ante inimícó in eós fuerat animó, ubi cógnóvit fíliam suam nón modo ad Argonautás sé recépisse sed etiam ad vellus auferendum auxilium tulisse, hóc dolóre gravius exársit. ❋ John [Editor] Kirtland (N/A)

Tandem tamen, quod sciébat Iásonem nón sine auxilió deórum hóc negótium suscépisse, mútátá sententiá prómísit sé vellus tráditúrum, sí Iásón labórés duós difficillimós prius perfécisset; et cum ❋ John [Editor] Kirtland (N/A)

Quó cum vénissent, Iásoní et Médéae advenientibus occurrérunt, et vellus aureum lúminis éius causam esse cógnóvérunt. ❋ John [Editor] Kirtland (N/A)

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