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glabrous

ADJECTIVE
  1. having no hair or similar growth; smooth
    glabrous stems
    a glabrous scalp
    glabrous leaves

How To Use glabrous In A Sentence

  • Racemes many, fascicled or panicled, glume I of sessile spikelets glabrous and pitted. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • To his admirers, and they are legion, the glabrous Ailes is something else entirely — a valiant freedom-fighter standing up to the perfidious liberal media elite. Meet the fantastic Mr Fox
  • A line of shells, white and pink and glabrous in the bright sunlight, marked the line of the high tide. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • In the centre we find a brown seed the size of your thumbnail, elongated and glabrous as river stone.
  • There is considerable variation in leaf morphology in V. riparia; in general leaves are glabrous to thinly pubescent with conspicuous tuft-form domatia in vein axils.
  • The _spikelets_ are biseriate, loosely imbricate, ovate, acute, pubescent or villous (sometimes quite glabrous), sessile or shortly pedicelled; the pedicels have one or two (rarely more) long hairs. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • When she gallantly removes her cap, her glabrous head radiates a glorious halo.
  • Leaves a span long, cordato acuminate; the laminae all pointing downwards, glossy green and glabrous above. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
  • Fruits of this species are glabrous achenes, with sepals modified into plumose bristles and are frequently wind-dispersed.
  • a glabrous scalp
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