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Glabrous vs Chaffweed - What's the difference?

glabrous | chaffweed |

As an adjective glabrous

is smooth, hairless; bald.

As a noun chaffweed is

a low glabrous weedy branching herb of the family primulaceae having short dry chafflike leaves.

glabrous

English

(glabrousness)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Smooth, hairless; bald.
  • * 1973 , (w, Patrick O'Brian), :
  • *:‘I am bound by precendent,’ said the First Lord, turning a vast glabrous expressionless face from Harte to Sir Joseph.
  • *1974 , (Guy Davenport), :
  • *:Adriaan rose, pulling out his limbering glabrous cock, his eyes happy.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 143:
  • *:The glabrous old head cranks round on him, stiff and slow, until the clouded eyes draw level with his own.
    • Antonyms
    * hirsute

    Derived terms

    * glabrousness

    chaffweed

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low glabrous weedy branching herb of the family Primulaceae having short dry chafflike leaves.

    • Synonyms

    * bastard pimpernel * false pimpernel