axillary hair

English

Etymology

axillary (“adjacent or pertaining to the armpit, axilla, or shoulder”) + hair

Noun

axillary hair (usually uncountable, plural axillary hairs)

1. (uncountable) Androgenic hair growing in the armpit, normally beginning at the onset of, or shortly after, pubarche.
2. (countable) A single strand of axillary hair.

Translations

armpit hair

• Arabic: شَعْر الْإِبْط m (šaʕr al-ʔibṭ)
• Czech: axilární ochlupení n
• Finnish: kainalokarvat, kainalokarvoitus
• German: Achselhaar (de) n
• Japanese: 腋毛 (ja) (wakige)
• Tarifit: izaggʷen m pl
• Thai: ขนรักแร้ (kǒn-rák-rɛ́ɛ)

strand of armpit hair

• Finnish: kainalokarva
• Tarifit: zaggʷ m

See also

• pubic hair