lanate
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- sublanate adjective
Etymology
Origin of lanate
1750–60; < Latin lānātus woolly, equivalent to lān ( a ) wool + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Lanate, Lanose, woolly; clothed with long and soft entangled hairs.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
Lanate -atus: woolly: covered with dense, fine, long hairs, so distinct that they may be separated.
From Project Gutenberg
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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