- lanugos
- n. covering of fine soft hairs, coating of down (especially on a newborn infant)
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
lanugos
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lanugo — /leuh nooh goh, nyooh /, n., pl. lanugos. Biol. a coat of delicate, downy hairs, esp. that with which the human fetus or a newborn infant is covered. [1670 80; < L lanugo wooliness, down, deriv. of lana WOOL] * * * … Universalium
