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lanate

[ ley-neyt ]

adjective

  1. woolly; covered with something resembling wool.


lanate

/ -nəʊz; ˈleɪnəʊs; ˈleɪneɪt /

adjective

  1. having or consisting of a woolly covering of hairs
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  • sub·lanate adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lanate1

1750–60; < Latin lānātus woolly, equivalent to lān ( a ) wool + -ātus -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lanate1

C18: from Latin lānātus, from lāna wool
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Example Sentences

Lanate, Lanose, woolly; clothed with long and soft entangled hairs.

BUDS—terminal buds usually 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch long, subglobose to narrowly ovate, with 8-10 imbricate scales, the outermost of which are a blackish brown with dark brown tomentum, and a short mucronate or attenuate apex, inner scales light brown with longer lanate pubescence and apex acute to obtuse; lateral buds smaller, about 1/4 of an inch with tightly appressed scales.

Lanate -atus: woolly: covered with dense, fine, long hairs, so distinct that they may be separated.

Judging from her appearance, the transformists tell us that she was an Anthidium, that is to say, she used to gather the soft cotton-wool from the dry stalks of the lanate plants and fashion it into wallets, in which to heap up the pollen-dust which she gleaned from the flowers by means of a brush carried on her abdomen.

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