INGROWN HAIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ingrown hair mean? 

• INGROWN HAIR (noun)
  The noun INGROWN HAIR has 1 sense:

1. a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation)

  Familiarity information: INGROWN HAIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INGROWN HAIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("ingrown hair" is a kind of...):

hair; pilus (any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal)