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mane

mane

29 1.0
Long thick hair around the neck of animals like horses or lions
  • noun
  • /meɪn/
translation icon : melena
  • The horse galloped through the field, its mane flowing beautifully in the wind.
  • a lion's mane

As you can tell from my flowing mane, we are still on lockdown.

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Examples

  • As a result, lions with dark, luxurious manes may fade into Serengeti history.

    Academic text (2009)
  • It's my lion's mane!

  • You could have said drain or mane, like a horse's mane.

  • The wind had troubled his gray mane and had given his face a ruddy touch.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Things like how the lion got his mane and how the camel got his hump and so on.

  • The cowboy scrambled over and clutched her mane as though he didn't want her to try to move.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Drizzt shook his head and brushed his thick white mane back from his face with slender fingers.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The lion shook its head, causing its majestic mane to ripple like a golden wave.

  • After the storm, the wild horse stood proudly, its mane tangled yet striking against the sunset.

How Large

mane
29 1.0
beard
11 8.3
tuft
16 3.5
bristle
15 3.5
filament
4 5.7

Surface Forms

mane singular
manes plural

Etymology

Mane comes from an old German word that meant 'hair of the neck', so think of a lion's crown or a horse's flowing neck hair; that's why a mane is the long, thick hair that grows along an animal's neck.