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

Other Word Forms

• sublanate adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of lanate¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of lanate¹

C18: from Latin lānātus, from lāna wool

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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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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Related Words

• furry 
• fuzzy 
• shaggy 
• unshaven 
• woolly