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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mane has 2 senses
- mane(n = noun.animal) Array - long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck; Array has particulars: encolure
- mane(n = noun.body) head of hair - growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being; Array is a part of homo, human, human being, man
is a part of king of beasts, lion, panthera leo
is a kind of hair
is a kind of hair
CIDE DICTIONARY
mane, n. [AS. manu; akin to OD. mane, D. maan, G. mähne, OHG. mana, Icel. mön, Dan. & Sw. man, AS. mene necklace, Icel. men, L. monile, Gr. , , Skr. manyā neck muscles.
The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mane, n.
1 long hair growing in a line on the neck of a horse, lion, etc.
2 colloq. a person's long hair.
1 long hair growing in a line on the neck of a horse, lion, etc.
2 colloq. a person's long hair.
Derivative
maned adj. (also in comb.). maneless adj.
Etymology
OE manu f. Gmc
THESAURUS
mane
bristle, capillament, cilium, coat, crop, fleece, fur, hair, head, head of hair, horsehair, locks, mat, mop, pelt, pile, pubescence, pubic hair, setula, shag, shock, thatch, tresses, woolROGET THESAURUS
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Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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