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adj
Covered with down or fine soft hairs (lanugo); downy or fuzzy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Latin lānūginōsus, from lānūgō, lānūginis (“woolly substance, down”), from lāna (“wool”).
Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
