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lanate

lanate adjective: covered in or composed of woolly hairs.

Adjective

lanate (comparative more lanate, superlative most lanate)

  1. Covered in or composed of woolly hairs.

Forms of lanate

comparativemore lanate
superlativemost lanate

Origin of lanate

First attested in 1760; borrowed from Latin lānātus (“woolly”), from lāna, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Words formed from lanate

Questions about lanate

What does lanate mean?
Lanate means covered in or composed of woolly hairs.
What part of speech is lanate?
Lanate is an adjective.

Words near lanate in the dictionary

  1. Lanarkshire disease
  2. lanary
  3. Lanas
  4. LaNasa
  5. LaNasas
  6. lanate
  7. lanated
  8. lanately
  9. lanatigonin
  10. lanatigoside
  11. lanatoside

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