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Noun beard has 5 senses

beard, face fungus, whiskers - the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
--₁ is a kind of hair
--₁ is a part of face, human face; adult male body, man's body
--₁ has parts: mustache, moustache
--₁ has particulars:
fuzz; imperial, imperial beard; beaver; sideburn, burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers; goatee; vandyke beard, vandyke

Derived form: verb beard₁
beard - a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses
--₂ is a kind of hair, fuzz, tomentum
--₂ has particulars: awn
beard - a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality)
--₃ is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
beard - hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals
--₄ is a kind of hair
--₄ is a part of goat, caprine animal
Derived form: verb beard₁
byssus, beard - tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
--₅ is a kind of fiber, fibre

Verb beard has 1 sense

beard - go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; "Houses bearded the top of the heights"
--₁ is one way to rim

Derived forms: noun beard₁, noun beard₄
Sample sentence:
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