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Record 1 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
CONT

The bee's body is thickly covered with fine hairs. When a bee travels from flower to flower, grains of pollen stick to these hairs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
CONT

Le dessus de l'abdomen, comme le dos du thorax, est ordinairement recouvert de poils plus ou moins clairsemés (...) C'est dans leur épaisse fourrure que se recueillent et s'accumulent de fortes charges de pollen (...)

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Skin
DEF

Any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareil cutané
DEF

Production de la peau en forme de fil, apparaissant sur le corps de certains animaux ou sur certaines parties du corps humain.

CONT

Les poils sont des productions filiformes qui se montrent sur toute la surface de la peau du corps à l'exception de la paume des mains et de la plante des pieds.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Piel
DEF

Filamento cilíndrico, sutil, de naturaleza córnea, que nace y crece entre los poros de la piel de casi todos los mamíferos y de algunos animales de distinta clase.

OBS

"Cabello" es el nombre de los pelos de la cabeza. "Vello" es el pelo que sale más corto y suave que el de la cabeza y de la barba, en algunas partes del cuerpo humano.

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Record 3 2003-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
OBS

Trichomes, or plants hairs, ... serve to protect the plant, either from the drying effects of wind and sun, or from plant-eating insects or other animals, which may be physically repelled by the hairs or poisoned by chemicals they produce.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
DEF

Production épidermique fine comme un cheveu.

CONT

[...] les feuilles sont parfois recouvertes de poils (trichomes) ou de cire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
DEF

Excrecencia epidérmica de la superficie de los órganos vegetales.

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Record 4 2001-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
CONT

Devaney calls this ray a hair.

CONT

Also we have found that the Julia-like sets there typically contain "hairs" like....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
CONT

Nous considérons un cercle de rayon R près du centre. Médiographie L. Devaney.

Spanish

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Record 5 1990-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hair Styling
DEF

the coating of hairs on a human head.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coiffure
DEF

Ensemble des cheveux d'une personne.

Spanish

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Record 6 1988-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
CONT

Bow ..., in music, the implement used to stroke and thereby vibrate the strings of instruments of the viol and violin families. It consists of a curved wooden stick with horsehair stretched from end to end.... The "nut", a device at the lower end of the stick that regulates the tension of the hair, first appeared in the 16th century.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
CONT

Archet. (...) De nos jours, il se compose d'une mèche en crins de cheval et d'une baguette au profil concave (...) La mèche est attachée d'une part à la tête, de l'autre à la hausse d'ébène qui sert à tenir l'archet et à régler sa tension (..) La tension de la mèche s'effectue grâce à une vis à écrou placée au bout de la hausse qui fait avancer ou reculer celle-ci.

Spanish

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Record 7 1980-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
OBS

An epidermal appendage, usually slender, simple, or variously branched.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique

Spanish

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