pilo-, pil-, pili- +

1. Resembling a hair.
2. Having many filaments that resemble a hair or thread.

1. An extremely narrow thin-walled blood vessel that connects small arteries (arterioles) with small veins (venules) to form a network throughout the body.
2. Involving or relating to capillary action.
3. Resembling hair; as fine and slender as a hair.

1. Believed to be from assumed late Latin catta pilosa, "hairy cat".
2. The larva of a butterfly or moth.

Literally, "a hairy she-cat", the word being derived from Old (North) French catte (French chatte, "she-cat") and pelue, "hairy". It has a long soft body, many short legs, and often has brightly colored or spiny skin.

To remove hair from the body, usually from the legs or underarms.

1. Having the property of removing hair.
2. A depilatory agent or substance; a preparation to remove (growing) hair.

Deprived or void of hair.

It is present in varying numbers in different parts of the body surface but it is absent in others; such as, the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, glans penis, inner surfaces of clitoris, and labia minora. It also varies in length, thickness, color, shape, and waviness in different parts of the body and in different individuals.

A hair ball found in the stomach and intestine.

To pull out or eradicate (hair).

1. The loss or intentional removal of hair.
2. To pull out or to eradicate hair.

Something that is totally and absolutely valueless or worthless.

It is a combination of: flocci, a "tuft of wool"; plus nauci from naucum, "a trifling thing, worthless" plus nihili from Latin nihil, "nothing" plus pili, the plural of pilus, a "hair" or "trifle"; plus the suffix -fication, to make the combination a noun.

Listed in the well-known Eton Latin Grammar of Eton College in the UK.

The Oxford English Dictionary shows the first use of the word by William Shetstone in 1777: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money."

Erection of the hairs on the skin by contraction of the cutaneous muscles (caused by cold, fear or other emotion, or nervous affection), producing the condition known as "goose-flesh"; "goose-bumps", and "creeping of the flesh".

1. The hair, wool, or especially fur, with which an animal is covered.
2. Collectively the hair of the entire body.

The fading of hair.

A reference to hair.

1. Of or relating to hair or a hair; hairy.
2. Covered with hairs; especially, fine soft ones.