MANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mane mean? 

• MANE (noun)
  The noun MANE has 2 senses:

1. long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck

2. growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being

  Familiarity information: MANE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mane" is a kind of...):

hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mane"):

encolure (the mane of a horse)

Holonyms ("mane" is a part of...):

king of beasts; lion; Panthera leo (large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

head of hair; mane

Hypernyms ("mane" is a kind of...):

hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)

Holonyms ("mane" is a part of...):

homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

 Context examples 

This was her day—and it came not often—when manes bristled, and fang smote fang or ripped and tore the yielding flesh, all for the possession of her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I haven't the faintest idea," said the Tin Woodman, and the Lion shook his shaggy mane and looked thoughtful.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In the Rough variety, an abundant double coat forms a mane around the neck and chest.

(Collie, NCI Thesaurus)

I'll give it to you, Marmee, just to remember past glories by, for a crop is so comfortable I don't think I shall ever have a mane again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As they passed Alleyne saw that one of the men was wiping his sword-blade upon the mane of his horse.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It forms an abundant mane around the neck and chest.

(Kuvasz, NCI Thesaurus)

One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting, his mane bristling in recurrent waves.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He was, indeed, a weird figure as he turned his white mane and his glowing eyes towards us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Just to comb out this shaggy black mane.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The longish silky coat may be wavy or with large curls, with a heavy mane at the neck.

(Borzoi, NCI Thesaurus)