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lanugos

lanugos is the plural of lanugo.

Meaning of lanugo

Noun

lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)

  1. 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

Questions about lanugos

What is lanugos the plural of?
Lanugos is the plural of lanugo.

Words near lanugos in the dictionary

  1. Lantzys
  2. lanuginose
  3. lanuginosely
  4. lanuginous
  5. lanugo
  6. lanugos
  7. Lanum
  8. Lanums
  9. Lanuvian
  10. Lanuza
  11. Lanuzas

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