| NOUN | animal | pelage, coat | growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal |
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| Meaning | growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal. | |
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| Synonym | coat | |
| Part of | mammal, mammalian | Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair |
| Narrower | fur | dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel) |
| wool, fleece | Outer coat of especially sheep and yaks | |
| Broader | hair | A covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head) |
| Spanish | pelaje, pelo | |
| Catalan | pelatge, pèl | |
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