pilo-, pil-, pili- +

1. Resembling a hair: There were a few capillaceous fibers on Jack's shirt which his wife removed before they went out to dine.
2. Regarding something that has many filaments that resemble a hair or thread: The fake für collar on Barbara's jacket was quite capillaceous and so very soft and smooth!

1. Involving or relating to capillary action: Mr. Tall explained capillary activity to his students as being the pulling or drawing of a fluid (often against gravity) into or up slender interstices caused by surface tension.
2. Resembling hair; as fine and slender as a hair: In botany class, Mr. Flower showed his students a photo of a leaf in a capillary form or shape being quite long, very narrow, and elongated.

An extremely narrow thin-walled blood vessel: A capillary connects small arteries (arterioles) with small veins (venules) to form a network throughout the body.

1. The larva or a worm with a long soft body, many short legs, and that often has brightly colored or spiny skin: The caterpillar develops and changes into a butterfly or a moth.
2. Etymology: from Latin catta pilosa, "hairy cat".

Literally, "a hairy she-cat", the word being derived from Old (North) French catte (French chatte, "she-cat") and pelue, "hairy".

To remove hair from the body, usually from the legs or underarms: Every few days, Lynn depilates her long legs as to make the skin very smooth.

An agent or substance to remove growing hair: While at the drug store, Mary looked for a tube of depilatory foam to depilate her legs and under her arms.

Regarding the feature of removing hair: In order to accomplish the depilatory morning job of making his face smooth again, he used his new electric razor.

Regarding the lack of hair; void of hair; hairless: Hair on a person's body is present in varying numbers on different parts of the body surface, but it is absent, or depilous, such as on the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, glans penis, inner surfaces of clitoris, and labia minora. It also varies in length, thickness, color, shape, and waviness on different parts of the body and on different individuals.

A ball or accumulation of hair or other fibers matter: An egagropilus can be found in goats or other ruminants.

An egagropilus can also occur in cats as a hair ball found in the stomach which is normally ejected or thrown up by the cat.

To pull out or eradicate (hair).: Susan had to look carefully in the mirror while she epilated, or plucked, the hairs in her eyebrows.

The intentional removal of hair: The dermatologist first explained to Jill the process of epilation and then she used an electric epilator to pull out unwanted hair on Jill's face, including the extraction of the hair roots.

Something that is totally and absolutely valueless or worthless: The old vase had many cracks and was ugly in addition and was considered to be a complete case of floccinaucinihilipilification

It is a combination of: flocci, a "tuft of wool"; plus nauci from naucum, "a trifling thing, worthless" plus nihili from Latin nihil, "nothing" plus pili, the plural of pilus, a "hair" or "trifle"; plus the suffix -fication, to make the combination a noun.

Listed in the well-known Eton Latin Grammar of Eton College in the UK.

The Oxford English Dictionary shows the first use of the word by William Shetstone in 1777: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money."

Erection of the hairs on the skin by contraction of the cutaneous muscles (caused by cold, fear or other emotion, or nervous affection), producing the condition known as "gooseflesh", "goose bumps", and "creeping of the flesh": Erika horripilates when she sees all the violence in movies and on TV.

1. Outdated, the hair, wool, or especially fur, with which an animal is covered; pelage: The pilage on Virginia's kitten was so soft and fluffy.
2. Collectively the hair of the entire body: The perspective buyer of the horse scrutinized the pilage, especially the coarseness, fineness, thickness, etc.

The fading of hair: In a very old book on medicine, Jiudy found the term pilapanthia describing the vanishment or disappearance of hair on a person or fur on an animal.