STUBBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stubble mean? 

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

1. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

2. short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days

  Familiarity information: STUBBLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUBBLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

chaff; husk; shuck; stalk; straw; stubble

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

plant material; plant substance (material derived from plants)

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

bran (broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

beard; face fungus; whiskers (the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face)

 Context examples 

This unassuming style promotes study, that's why we adopt it, returned Laurie, who certainly could not be accused of vanity, having voluntarily sacrificed a handsome curly crop to the demand for quarter-inch-long stubble.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance: physically, I felt, at the moment, powerless as stubble exposed to the draught and glow of a furnace: mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was something pathetic in it that touched me; it also gave me a lesson, for it seemed that before me was a child—only a child, though the features were worn, and the stubble on the jaws was white.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It belonged to a red-haired person—a youth of fifteen, as I take it now, but looking much older—whose hair was cropped as close as the closest stubble; who had hardly any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, so unsheltered and unshaded, that I remember wondering how he went to sleep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)