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INGROWN HAIR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ingrown hair" is a kind of...):
hair; pilus (any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal)