glabrous

From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”) +‎ -ous.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlabɹəs/, /ˈɡleɪbɹəs/

glabrous (comparative more glabrous, superlative most glabrous)

1. Smooth, hairless; bald.
   • 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:

     ‘I am bound by precedent,’ said the First Lord, turning a vast glabrous expressionless face from Harte to Sir Joseph.

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     Adriaan rose, pulling out his limbering glabrous cock, his eyes happy.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 143:

     The glabrous old head cranks round on him, stiff and slow, until the clouded eyes draw level with his own.

• hirsute

• glabrousness