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Definition of Glabrous
1. Adjective. Having no hair or similar growth; smooth. "A glabrous scalp"
Definition of Glabrous
1. a. Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
Definition of Glabrous
1. Adjective. smooth, hairless, bald. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glabrous
1. smooth [adj] - See also: smooth
Medical Definition of Glabrous
1. Without hairs. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glabrous
Literary usage of Glabrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"branchlets glabrous: Ivs. elliptic to lanceolate, somewhat rugose, pubescent,
later glabrescent above, about 1 in. long: catkins a little before the Ivs.; ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Shrub, 4 ft. high, with slender terete branches, glabrous: axillary buds acuminate,
longer than the petioles: Iva. ovate-lanceolate to oblong - lanceolate, ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... doubly serrate with rather coarse teeth and with 3-4 pairs of acute lobes,
glabrous ; corymbs glabrous or slightly pubescent; flowers about 2 cm. wide; ..."
4. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"King wsx. ; glabrous, leaves coriaceous oblong acuminate entire shining above with
... 214; glabrous, leaves small elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate obtuse or ..."
5. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Wholly glabrous, or with minuto soft pubescence, bushy, also disposed to twine,
4 to 8 feet high : leaves oval, inch long, or little longer, ..."
6. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"Corolla glabrous, 4.5 to 5 cm long and wide, the tube about 2 cm long, somewhat
broadened upwards, the lobes 2.5 cm long, 2 cm wide, elliptical-obovate, ..."
7. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"leaves lance-oblong, acute, Î glands at the base, glabrous, ... leaves lanceolate,
acute, very long, gradually tapering to the base, serrulate, glabrous, ..."
8. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Pappus none, or ¡i minute callous cup. — Low glabrous annuals, or larger aud more
enduring'plants with thickened succulent stems, ..."
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