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eyelash

/ˌaɪˈlæʃ/
/ˈaɪlæʃ/
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Other forms: eyelashes

An eyelash is a hair that grows from your top or bottom eyelid. Try batting or fluttering your eyelashes to get attention. You'll either get what you want or look silly, or both.

Eyelashes are small, usually dark and curved, and having plenty of long, lush eyelashes is considered attractive in everyone, male or female. The combination of your blinking eyelids and the fringe of eyelashes helps keep small particles out of your eyes — and eyelashes are sensitive in a similar way to a cat's whiskers, so that your eyes will shut reflexively when some object comes too close.

Definitions of eyelash
  1. noun
    any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
    synonyms: cilium, lash
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    type of:
    hair
    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
Pronunciation
US
/ˌaɪˈlæʃ/
UK
/ˈaɪlæʃ/
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