PELAGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does pelage mean?
• PELAGE (noun)
The noun PELAGE has 1 sense:
1. growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal
Familiarity information: PELAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PELAGE (noun)
Meaning:
Growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
pelage; coat
Hypernyms ("pelage" is a kind 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pelage"):
fur (dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel))
fleece; wool (outer coat of especially sheep and yaks)
Holonyms ("pelage" is a part of...):
mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)