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Meanings of familial woolly hair syndrome in English

Woolly hair is a rare congenital abnormality of the structure of the scalp hair marked by extreme kinkiness of the hair.

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Examples for "hereditary woolly hair syndrome"
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The Wadreagans and Wurgelans are of a dark bronze, with woolly hair.
Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
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He was twenty, and though not dark in colour, has woolly hair.
Southern Arabia
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Their woolly hair was frizzled or plaited, sometimes powdered white with chunam.
The Phantom Ship
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If he hadn't had such purplish lips, and all that woolly hair.
Flesh and blood
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Their black faces and woolly hair contrasted most ludicrously with the white pillow-case.
The Englishwoman in America
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They are black in color, tall, well-shaped, with regular features and wooly hair.
The Future of the Colored Race in America / Being an article in ...
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Her wooly hair was plaited into little tails which stuck out in all directions.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition
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A small amount of short wooly hair is usually found over the back of a newborn infant.
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy
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They stood about gracefully to be admired, with their wooly hair fluffed out at right angles to their head, for the occasion.
Six Women