Head

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The Head

  1. hair
  2. forehead
  3. eye
  4. cheek
  5. mouth
  6. nose
  7. ear
  8. dimple
  9. chin
  10. beard

Hair or hairs?

In English, hair is usually singular:

Example:
Your hair looks lovely today!
Ella has blonde hair.
There is a lot of dog hair on the couch.

We use the plural hairs when we refer to individual strands.

Example:
I found three grey hairs this morning.
Waiter there's a hair in my soup. No wait, there are two hairs.