lanuginose

• lanuginous

Borrowed from Latin lānūginōsus, from lānūgō, lānūginis (“woolly substance, down”), from lāna (“wool”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləˈnjuːd͡ʒənəʊs/, /ləˈnjuːd͡ʒɪnəʊs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ləˈnud͡ʒənoʊs/, /ləˈnjud͡ʒənoʊs/

lanuginose (comparative more lanuginose, superlative most lanuginose)

1. (biology, especially botany) Covered with down or fine soft hairs (lanugo); downy or fuzzy.

   lanuginose fruit

   lanuginose twigs

• “lanuginose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

lanuginose

1. feminine plural of lanuginoso

lānūginōse

1. vocative masculine singular of lānūginōsus