Vibrissa (4 letters)

{ Answer }

HAIR

{ Related Clues }

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Filament
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Bun contents
Crowning glory
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Rapunzel's abundance
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Slight edge
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Extremely small margin
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Very slim margin
Word with do or cut
*Extremely narrow winning margin
Long-running Broadway musical
Musical with the song "Easy to Be Hard"

{ Tags }

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{ Notes }

The answer HAIR is seen frequently, appearing about once every 110 puzzles.

{ Definition }

HAIR as a noun:

1. a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"

2. (hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, hair, whisker) = a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"

3. (hair, fuzz, tomentum) = filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz"

4. (hair, pilus) = any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup"

5. (haircloth, hair) = cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

6. a filamentous projection or process on an organism