pilar: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Sep. 19, 2014

pilar \PAHY-ler\ adjective 1. of, pertaining to, or covered with hair. Quotes Their bodies are remarkably smooth, and devoid of pilar hair… -- James Cowles Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, 1826 Origin Pilar came to English in the mid-1800s from the New Latin pilāris meaning "of hair."

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