lanugo

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

• IPA^(key): /ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/

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lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)

1. Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
   • 1874, Charles Darwin, “Chaper XX”, in The Descent of Man:

     From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human fœtus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     […] early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines […]

• lanugo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lanugo (Q1540378)

• Angulo, Lugano

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

• IPA^(key): [laˈnuɡo]
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• Rhymes: -uɡo
• Hyphenation: la‧nu‧go

lanugo (uncountable, accusative lanugon)

1. down
2. fluff

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō, derived from lāna (“wool”).

• IPA^(key): /laˈnu.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -uɡo
• Hyphenation: la‧nù‧go

lanugo f (uncountable)

1. (biology) lanugo

   Synonym: lanugine

• lanugo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Lugano, a lungo, languo, nugola

lāna (“wool”) +‎ -ūgō

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laːˈnuː.ɡoː/, [ɫ̪äːˈnuːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈnu.ɡo/, [läˈnuːɡo]

lānūgō f (genitive lānūginis); third declension

1. (in the poetry of every age and in post-Augustan prose) woolly substance, the down of plants, of youthful cheeks, etc.
2. (transferred sense) sawdust

Third-declension noun.

• (sawdust): scobis

• “lānūgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lānūgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 886/2.
• “lānūgō” on page 1,000/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Learned borrowing from Latin lānūgō. Doublet of flanela and wełna.

• IPA^(key): /laˈnu.ɡɔ/
• Rhymes: -uɡɔ
• Syllabification: la‧nu‧go

lanugo n (indeclinable)

1. (anatomy) lanugo

• lanugo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin [Term?] or French lanugo.

lanugo n (uncountable)

1. lanugo

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

lanugo m (uncountable)

1. lanugo

• “lanugo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014