babyhair (countable anduncountable,pluralbaby hairs)

1. (dialect, usuallycountable) Afine,wispystrand of hair at the edge of a person's (usually a woman's)hairline.
   • 2003, Darcel Turner,Dana Dances on Paper‎^[1]:

     Medium size cornrows going back with a curl at the end of each braid. A silky, smooth, hairline, highlighted with soft blackbaby hairs.

2. (uncountable) The hair of a baby.
3. (countable,uncountable) Anyimmature orfine strand of hair, or (uncountably) a collection of such hairs. (Comparebaby tooth,baby fat.)
   • 1919, Eleanor Atkinson,The how and why Library‎^[2]:

     You shed your hair, too. Old hairs fall out nearly every day, and newbaby hairs grow in their places .

   • 1931, Lida Louise Fleitmann,The Horse in Art: From Primitive Times to the Present:

     He has not made the mistake of giving us a smaller horse, but shows us all the coltish attributes, the curlingbaby hair on the flanks, the slim gawky legs, and above all the concave face and[…]

(fine hair at hairline): Usually used in reference to the textured hair of Black and Latina women.