Wiktionary:Word of the day/July 13

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calvous adj

(formal, medicine, rare) Lacking most or all of one's hair; bald, hairless. (botany, rare) Lacking bristles or pappuses. The calvous British actor Sir Patrick Stewart was born on this day in 1940.

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