hair vs body hair

body hair vs hair

hair and body hair both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hair	Yes	No	No	No
body hair	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, body hair is a hyponym of hair; that is, body hair is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hair:

hair: a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
body hair: short hair growing over a person's body

Other hyponyms of hair include coat, pelage, guard hair, mane, forelock, foretop, beard, down, pile, head of hair, mane, cowlick, coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle, lock, facial hair, bush, crotch hair, pubic hair, brow, eyebrow, supercilium, cilium, eyelash, lash.

hair (noun)	body hair (noun)
a filamentous projection or process on an organism	short hair growing over a person's body
cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
a very small distance or space

Difference between hair and body hair

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