guard hair

1. 1.

   coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals

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Questions about guard hair

What does guard hair mean?

guard hair means "coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals".

Is guard hair a common word?

guard hair is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.