Lanate

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered in or composed of woolly hairs.
Adjective
  1. 1
    covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments wordnet

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bristlybushyciliatecirrosedownyfeathery

Etymology

First attested in 1760; borrowed from Latin lānātus (“woolly”), from lāna, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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