velutinous

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[veh-LOO-tih-nuss]

  • (adj): Covered in soft, silky hairs
Although the animal activist found the idea of an alpaca rug to be quite disgusting, she was forced to admit the velutinous texture was quite pleasant to the touch.

EDITOR'S NOTE: From the Latin for velvet (and I've never skinned an alpaca).

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Michael Phelps probably forgot to shave his velutinous body to cut down drag in his last race.

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The horrors of parochial school

I told my bemused lay teacher that the patchy thicket of hairs on Sister Henriettas's chin gave her mannish face a somewhat velutinous appareance.

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My girlfriend talking about my pet rat.

Splinter's balls have become quite velutinous, better than the red shiny orbs that used to hang off his butt!

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The skin of the peach I ate for breakfast was extremely velutinous.

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Katie was so velutinous when she was young, but as she grew older her fur wasn't nearly as soft.

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The newborn's velutinous skin, although somewhat pastey in color, was quite tender and supple to the touch.

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While some call him Sasquatch, others call him velutinous.

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"I assume [your neurons] comprise a panoply of various routes and connections."

A velutinous nexus of electrical signals.

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