Definition of Lanuginous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Lanuginous

1. Covered with lanugo. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lanuginous

lanthanums
lanthionine
lanthionine synthase
lanthopine
lanthorn
lanthorn-fly
lanthorns
lantibiotic
lantibiotics
lanting
lants
lantskip
lantskips
lantzman
lantzmen
lanuginous (current term)
lanugo
lanugo hair
lanugos
lanx
lanyard
lanyards
lanyer
lanyers
laocoon
laogai
laogais
laojiao
lap
lap-dance

Literary usage of Lanuginous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Vulgo—Mouse-ear Cud-weed. Root perennial. Stem 2 or 3 to 6 inches high, lanuginous, hoary with a ... (or often loosely lanuginous) above, hoary and densely ..."

2. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"Scales or leaves of the involucrum lanuginous, the lower ones armed with spines, the upper simple, acute. Corolla purple. Grows in the mountains of Carolina ..."

3. Manual of Human and Comparative Histology by Salomon Stricker (1872)
"Where a thick, permanent hair, the papilla of which extends as far as the subcutaneous connective tissue, replaces a fine lanuginous hair, the papilla of ..."

4. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... loal corymbose clusters, forming altogether a large corymbose panic)«, very fragrant; involucre longer than the disk, lanuginous at base, the leaflets ..."

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