barbigerous means having a beard; bearded; hairy.
Why “barbigerous” is a great word
Having a beard or profuse facial hair. From the Latin barbiger, from barba ("beard") + gerō ("carry, wear"). Unlike "bearded"—a plain, workaday descriptor—or "glabrous," its smooth-skinned opposite, barbigerous carries an almost ceremonial weight, suggesting not mere hair but the deliberate bearing of it. It evokes the stern, wiry fringe framing a philosopher's scowl, the wild growth of a hermit signaling withdrawal, or the raw, untamed thicket on a winter woodsman's jaw—an ancient word for the body announcing itself through what it cultivates and refuses to cut away.
Etymology
From Latin barbiger from barba (“beard”) + gerō (“carry, wear”).
adj
- Having a beard; bearded; hairy.e.g.“1810, James Kennedy, Glenochel, Glasgow: R. Chapman, Volume 2, p. 118,
Profoundly thoughtful looks the sage, / Barbigerous, and priestly mien’d;”
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