pelage

English Thesaurus

1. growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	hair,
definition	:	a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss (noun.body)

hyponym	:	fur,
definition	:	dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel) (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	fleece, wool,
definition	:	outer coat of especially sheep and yaks (noun.animal)

part meronym	:	mammal, mammalian,
definition	:	any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk (noun.animal)