Home › Words › D › doghairdoghairdoghair means pine forest where the trees have grown extremely thin and close together.EtymologyFrom dog + hair, by analogy with the thick hair on the back of a dog.nounPine forest where the trees have grown extremely thin and close together.e.g.“Doghair stands result from too many pine trees regenerating following fire or clearcutting which opens the forest canopy.” — 1983, United States Bureau of Land Management. Platte River Resource Area, Forest ecology/plant identification trail, page 7:Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, hair.e.g.“Holonyms: coat, pelt”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.pineclad 60% match — Covered with pine trees. vs doghair →piny 59% match — Of, pertaining to, or having many pines. vs doghair →pineyard 58% match — A coniferous forest ecoregion in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, dominated by Bahamian pine. vs doghair →whitebark 56% match — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz. vs doghair →pinery 55% match — A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit. vs doghair →diddledees 55% match — Pine needles. vs doghair →pinetum 54% match — An arboretum, or part of an arboretum or garden, devoted to growing conifers. vs doghair →firless 54% match — Without fir trees. vs doghair →