Lanugo: Definition and part of speech

Lanugo

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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