lanuginose
Americanadjective
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covered with lanugo, or soft, downy hairs.
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of the nature of down; downy.
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Etymology
Origin of lanuginose
1685–95; < Latin lānūginōsus downy, woolly, equivalent to lānūgin- (stem of lānūgō; see lanugo) + -ōsus -ose 1
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Crinite -us: with tufts of long thin hair: see lanuginose.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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