Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with soft, short hair; downy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Downy; covered with soft fine hairs like down: specifically said in botany of the surfaces of plants, and in entomology of the clothing of insects.
Etymologies
- From Latin lānūginōsus, from lānūgō, lānūgin-, lanugo; see lanugo.
Examples
“Of course, the plaster removes this soft lanuginous growth with the hardier one, and for that reason should be left severely alone.”
“Were we to go back to the pyrotechnics of romanticism, rewrite the lanuginous works of the Cherbuliez and Feuillet tribe, or, worse yet, imitate the lachrymose storiettes of Theuriet and George”
“The hopping-sallows open, and yield their palms before other sallows, and when they are blown (which is about the _exit_ of May, or sometimes June) the palms (or ὠλεσίκαρποι _frugiperdæ_, as Homer terms them for their extream levity) are four inches long, and full of a fine lanuginous cotton.”
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7762 more...
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-ginous
scaturiginous, imaginous, favaginous, perliginous, ferruginous, lanuginous, lentiginous, mucilaginous, plumbaginous, ambaginous, fuscoferuginous, rubiginous and 12 more...
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