Obsolete form of velvet.

Resembling or characteristic of vellum.

Resembling vellum.

Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.

Short, fine, light-colored, and barely noticeable hair that develops on most of a person's body from his/her childhood. / An individual strand of vellus hair

plural of vellus hair

A fine kind of cotton fabric, made very transparent, and used as a tracing cloth.

(organic chemistry) An alkaloid found in Geissospermum vellosii, a plant of Brazil; it has antiperiodic properties.

(Judaism) The most common typeface for printed Hebrew, and the Sephardi Stam script from which the typeface is derived.

(botany) Belonging to the family Velloziaceae of monocot plants.