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noun
Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: down, pile
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2welh1- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *h2wĺ̥h1neh2 Proto-Italic *wlāna Latin lāna Latin -ūgō Latin lānūgōbor. English lanugo Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.
Across languages
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
