lanuginose

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Latin lanuginosus, from lanugo, lanuginis, woolly substance, down, from lana wool.

Adjective

lanuginose (comparative more lanuginose, superlative most lanuginose)

  1. Covered with down, or fine soft hairs; downy.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lanuginose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Adjective

lanuginose

  1. feminine plural of lanuginoso

Latin

Adjective

lānūginōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of lānūginōsus
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