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lanuginose.

Covered with down or fine soft hairs (lanugo); downy or fuzzy.

10 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ləˈnjuːd͡ʒənəʊs/Received-Pronunciation/ləˈnjuːd͡ʒɪnəʊs/Received-Pronunciation/ləˈnud͡ʒənoʊs/General-American/ləˈnjud͡ʒənoʊs/General-American
  1. Covered with down or fine soft hairs (lanugo); downy or fuzzy.

    especially
    lanuginose fruit
    lanuginose twigs
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Latin lānūginōsus, from lānūgō, lānūginis (“woolly substance, down”), from lāna (“wool”).

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