lanuginose

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   botany or zoology: covered with or resembling fine, soft, downy hair

   The lanuginose surface of the young leaf was densely covered with pale hairs.

From Latin lanuginosus, 'downy or woolly,' from lanugo, 'soft down,' which is related to lana, 'wool.' Lanuginous is a common variant. Descent's languinous transposes sounds and letters from this word family and is not treated as a reusable spelling.

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