pilosity


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Synonyms for pilosity

the quality of having hair

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Dorsal surface of P1 carpus with faint median groove, opposable margin of propodite bearing 5 to 9 teeth with pilosity on both sides, but only of their proximal group, dactyl moving obliquely.
Metapleuron smooth, with sparse white pilosity, denser along lower and hind margins.
That is, variations were observed regarding the presence of glands on the bracts and sepals, relative size of the corona, pilosity, and form of the ovary and fruits, and color of branches and fruits, and differences in the yellowish color of the fruits.
Coxosternal region: sternum pentagonal with a deep median depression; all the components of this region granulose; coxapophyses I-II anteriorly with dense pilosity.
Capislow INCI name: water (and) butylene glycol (and) glycerin (and) larrea divaricata extract (and) lecithin Suggested use level: 3% Applications: depilatories, deodorants, shaving products, treatment products for excessive pilosity Comments: Capislow is a plant-derived molecule that targets the problems of unwanted hair by slowing the metabolic activity involved in the hair's growth process.
Producing a covering of short or long hairs (pubescence, pilosity) greatly reduces the wind speed over the leaf surface and, thus, losses by evapotranspiration.
In addition, hosts of closely related beetle species share physical features such as high leaf pilosity. Without a phylogeny of the Salicaceae, we cannot explicitly rule out host phylogeny, yet it is likely that the chemical and physical features shared by many willows have evolved convergently.
They possess a specialized pilosity on the ventral side of the thorax which probably evolved to brush pollen from the flat composite inflorescences (see Results: Specialized morphological structures).
Metapleuron smooth and bare over most of surface, with dense white pilosity along hind margin.
parkeri is possible because in the former species there is less pilosity on the shell (Fig.
Berlinger (1986) underlines that physical traits of leaf surfaces, such as pilosity, presence of adherent glandular trichomes and leaf format are aspects affecting oviposition preference by the whitefly.