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- Latin · borrowed fromlānūginōsus
- English todaylanuginose
Borrowed from Latin lānūginōsus, from lānūgō, lānūginis (“woolly substance, down”), from lāna (“wool”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
lanuginose
Today it means: Covered with down or fine soft hairs (lanugo); downy or fuzzy. Full definition →
Latin lānūginōsus