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  • 121Venus' hair — can refer to:*In geology, fine crystals of rutile in quartz. *In horticulture, a name for ferns in the genus Adiantum …

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  • 122angel hair — 1. Also called capelli d angelo. Italian Cookery. a type of very thin pasta. 2. a Christmas tree decoration consisting of long, fine threads of white spun glass. 3. a type of building insulation made of spun glass. Also, angel s hair. * * * …

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  • 123finer than frog hair — adjective Extremely fine. Eun hi was a business girl. One of the finest in Itaewon. Finer than frog hair, to be exact. A GIs dream …

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  • 124cartilage-hair hypoplasia — an autosomal recessive bone dysplasia caused by mutation in the RMRP gene (locus: 9p21 p12), which encodes an enzyme complex involved in processing mitochondrial RNA. It is characterized by short limbed dwarfism with flaring of the lower rib cage …

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  • 125bad hair day — Meaning A day when everything seems to go wrong. Origin This first came into the language following its use in the 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy (Kristy Swanson) to the one armed vampire Amilyn (Paul Reubens): I m fine but you re… …

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  • 126angel hair — an′gel (or an′gel s) hair n. coo pasta in long, very fine strands …

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  • 127Pele's hair — /peɪleɪz ˈhɛə/ (say paylayz hair) noun fine threads of volcanic material formed by the weathering action of wind, etc., on molten lava. {translation of Hawaiian ilauoho o Pele, from Pele, the fire goddess who inhabited a volcano} …

  • 128Pele's hair — [pā′lāz΄, pē′lēz΄] n. [transl. of Haw lauoho o Pele, after Pele, goddess of volcanoes] fine, hairlike filaments of volcanic glass formed naturally from molten lava that hardened while it was subjected to high winds or other turbulence …

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