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FACE FUNGUS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

Synonyms:

beard; face fungus; whiskers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("face fungus" is a kind of...):

facial hair (hair on the face (especially on the face of a man))

Meronyms (parts of "face fungus"):

moustache; mustache (an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip)

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

fuzz (the first beard of an adolescent boy)

imperial; imperial beard (a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III)

beaver (a full beard)

goatee (a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard)

stubble (short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days)

vandyke; vandyke beard (a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke))

Attilio; soul patch (a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin)

Holonyms ("face fungus" is a part of...):

adult male body; man's body (the body of an adult man)

face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)

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