lanugo
/ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/
lanugo noun: soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
Noun
lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)
- Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
- 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.1874, Charles Darwin, “Chaper XX”, in The Descent of Man
- […] early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines […]1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
lanugo meaning in Tamil and Indonesian
lanugo in Tamil
- அரும்புமயிர், வென்மயிர்
lanugo in Indonesian
- soft down or fine hair
- lanugo
Forms of lanugo
| plural | lanugos |
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Origin of lanugo
Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.
Questions about lanugo
- What does lanugo mean?
- Lanugo means soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
- What is lanugo in Tamil?
- Lanugo in Tamil is அரும்புமயிர், வென்மயிர். See Lanugo meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is lanugo?
- Lanugo is a noun.
- How do you pronounce lanugo?
- Lanugo is pronounced /ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/.
- What is the plural of lanugo?
- The plural of lanugo is lanugos.
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Source and license
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