lanugo

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/

Noun

lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)

1. Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines

Further reading

• lanugo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Angulo

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Noun

lanugo (uncountable, accusative lanugon)

1. down
2. fluff

Etymology

lāna (“wool”) +‎ -ūgō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laːˈnuː.ɡoː/, [ɫaːˈnuː.ɡoː]

Noun

lānūgō f (genitive lānūginis); third declension

1. (in the poetry of every age and in post-Augustan prose) woolly substance, the down of plants, of youthful cheeks, etc.
2. (transferred sense) sawdust

References

• lānūgo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lānūgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 886/2
• “lānūgō” on page 1,000/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.

Noun

lanugo m (uncountable)

1. lanugo