Usually means: Covered with soft, downy hairs.
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  2. lanuginous: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Lanuginous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Lanuginous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. lanuginous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  1. lanuginous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of lanuginose [Covered with down, or fine soft hairs; downy.]

Similar:
lanuginose, downy, puberulent, flocculent, lanate, plumaceous, plumulaceous, piligerous, velutinous, licheniform, more...

Opposite:
glabrous

Types:
downy, flossy, fuzzy, hairy, woolly, velvety, frizzy, more...

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Similar:
lanuginose, downy, puberulent, flocculent, lanate, plumaceous, plumulaceous, piligerous, velutinous, licheniform, more...

Opposite:
glabrous

Types:
downy, flossy, fuzzy, hairy, woolly, velvety, frizzy, more...



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