hirsute: M-W's Word of the Day

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The Word of the Day for July 16 is:

hirsute \HER-soot\ adjective
*1 : hairy
2 : covered with coarse stiff hairs

Example sentence:
Todd is hirsute, and gets a five-o'clock shadow, whereas his best friend Ryan can get away without shaving every day.

Did you know?
"Hirsute" has nearly the same spelling and exactly the same meaning as its Latin parent, "hirsutus." The word isn't quite one of a kind, though; it has four close relatives: "hirsutism" and "hirsuties," synonymous nouns naming a medical condition involving excessive hair growth; "hirsutal," an adjective meaning "of or relating to hair"; and "hirsutulous," a mostly botanical term meaning "slightly hairy" (as in "hirsutulous stems"). The last three are not especially common, but are entered in _Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged_.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

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