hair vs facial hair

facial hair vs hair

hair and facial hair both are nouns.

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

As nouns, facial hair is a hyponym of hair; that is, facial 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
facial hair: hair on the face (especially on the face of a man)

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

hair (noun)	facial hair (noun)
a filamentous projection or process on an organism	hair on the face (especially on the face of a man)
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 facial hair

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