What's the difference between beardless and whiskerless?

Beardless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.
  • (a.) Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other abnormal features in the family included precocious adrenarche, beardless males, eunuchoidism, and prepubertal grand mal seizures.
  • (2) A zoometric and yield study of the domestic Salvadorean hog in its three representative types: "chino" or beardless (CH), "negro" or black (N) and "parchado" or patched (P) in the birth-to-sacrifice stages, as well as in the carcasses, was carried out.
  • (3) Four of the species extinct in England also became extinct globally: the penguin-like great auk; Mitten's beardless moss; York groundsel, a weed only discovered in the 1970s; and the Ivell's sea anemone, last seen in a lagoon near Chichester.
  • (4) You may not agree with beardless election winners such as Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Tony Blair, but there's a reason that William Howard Taft was the last US president with facial hair in 1913: beards were seen as being the preserve of hippies and communists, shaving a sign of respectability.

Whiskerless


Definition:

  • (a.) Being without whiskers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whiskerless visage was ubiquitous on cable news.
  • (2) The tail fibers of mutant whiskerless (wac) phage still retract under the first two conditions, but not the last three.

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