Hairy skin of individual in front (6)
I believe the answer is:
pilose
'hairy' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
'skin of individual in front' is the wordplay.
'skin of' suggests removing the centre.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'front' becomes 'pose' (I've seen this before).
'individual' with its centre taken out is 'il'.
'il' going inside 'pose' is 'PILOSE'.
(Other definitions for pilose that I've seen before include "Hairy" , "Thematic types [DOGS] typically" .)