lanugo

la·nu·go  (l-ng, -ny-)

n. pl. la·nu·gos

A covering of fine, soft hair, as on a leaf, an insect, or a newborn child.

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[Middle English, pith, from Latin lng, down, from lna, wool.]

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lanugo [ləˈnjuːgəʊ]

n pl -gos

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) a layer of fine hairs, esp the covering of the human fetus before birth

[from Latin: down, from lāna wool]

lanuginous  [ləˈnjuːdʒɪnəs], lanuginose adj

lanuginousness  n

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lanugo  (l-ng)

A covering of fine, soft hair or hairlike structures, as on a leaf, insect, or human fetus.

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Noun

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lanugo - the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation pile, down - fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)