axillary hair

English

Etymology

axillary (“adjacent or pertaining to the armpit, axilla, or shoulder”) + hair

Noun

axillary hair (usually uncountable, plural axillary hairs)

1. (uncountable) Androgenic hair growing in the armpit, normally beginning at the onset of, or shortly after, pubarche.
2. (countable) A single strand of axillary hair.

Translations

armpit hair

• Finnish: kainalokarvat, kainalokarvoitus
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• Japanese: 腋毛 (wakige)
• Thai: ขนรักแร้ (kǒn-rák-rɛ́ɛ)

strand of armpit hair

• Finnish: kainalokarva
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See also

• pubic hair