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lanugo

Noun

la=nu=go

WORDNET DICTIONARY

lanugo(n = noun.body) Array - the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation; Array

lanugo, n. [See Lanuginose.].

The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth. [1913 Webster]

lanugo, n. fine soft hair, esp. that which covers the body and limbs of a human foetus.

Etymology

L, = down f. lana wool

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