lanuginose

  • 21lanuginous — a. (Bot.) Downy, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginose …

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  • 22downy — adj 1. fluffy, feathery, plumose, furry; fleecy, fleece like, lanuginose or lanuginous; soft, smooth, silken, silky, satiny, velvety, vultinous. 2. hairy, pubescent, Bot., Entomol. tomentose, Bot. villous or villose. 3. soft, gentle, soothing,… …

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  • 23fluffy — adj 1. downy, pillowy, flossy, cottony, lanuginose, lanuginous; fleecy, woolly, furry, lanate, lanose, flocculent; feathery, fuzzy, flaky; nappy, pilose, velvety, peachy; pubescent, wispy, Bot. tomen tous, Bot. pappose. 2. light, featherweight,… …

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  • 24rough — adj 1. irregular, uneven, coarse, not smooth, rugged, bumpy, jagged, craggy, scraggy; stony, rocky; stubbled, knotted, nodose, gnarled; wrinkly, rugulose, crinkly, corrugated, scaly; lumpy, nodulous. 2. shaggy, hairy, hirsute, crinose, trichoid;… …

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  • 25woolly — adj 1. lanate, lanose, flocculent, flocky, Bot. floccose. 2. hairy, pubescent, Bot., Entomol. tomentose, Bot. villous. 3. downy, fleecy, fleecelike, soft, smooth, lanuginose, velvety, velutinous; fluffy, feathery, furry, nappy, shaggy. 4.Informal …

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  • 26lanugo —   n. woolly down, especially covering human foetus.    ♦ lanuginose,    ♦ lanuginous, a. downy …

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  • 27lanugo — [lə no͞o′gō, lənyo͞o′gō] n. [L, down < lana, WOOL] a soft, downy growth; esp., a) the soft, downy hair covering the human fetus b) the fine hair covering most of the human body lanuginous [lə no͞o′ji nəs, lə nyo͞o′ji nəs] adj. lanuginose [lə… …

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