Guard hair

/ɡˈɑːd hˈeə/

/ɡˈɑːɹd hˈɛɹ/

[noun]

Guard hair

[NOUN]

the coarse, longer, and often more rigid hairs that form the outermost layer of an animal's fur or coat

Examples

1. Close to the skin is a layer of short, dense hairs and outside of that is a set of longer guard hairs.

2. But for many mammals, hair grows in two layers consisting of a shorter undercoat of ground hairs covered by longer guard hairs.

3. The fibers are packed with tiny pores, making them basically hollow and able to trap heat much like the guard hairs do.

4. but he has those long guard hairs and he's getting nice and blonde he's just beautiful so this is going to be fantastic it would be a great way for me to remember my bull from last year while having my bull from this year uh cape on them so kind of special kind of fun and uh we'll make a great pedestal mount out of them