• (a.) Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
Pi·lig'er·ous adjective [ Latin pilus hair + -gerous : confer French piligère .] Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous. 
piliferous, piligerous 1. Used to describe plant parts that are covered in fine hairs or have hairs growing at the tip. 2. Bearing or producing hair; the outermost layer of root or epiblema that gives rise to root-hairs.