Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or producing wool.
- In entomology:
- a) Woolly; thickly covered with fine curled hairs resembling wool.
- Having the appearance of wool: as, lanigerous hairs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing or producing wool.
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- adjective Bearing or producing
wool .
Etymologies
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Latin laniger; lano wool + gerere to hear.
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Examples
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[Note: Other genera of chenopodeae likewise exist on these plains, of which some salsolae, and that curious lanigerous shrub sclerolaena paradoxa of Mr. Brown, with spinous fruit, are most remarkable.]
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales John Oxley 1804
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13 Other genera of chenopodeae likewise exist on these plains, of which some salsolae, and that curious lanigerous shrub sclerolaena paradoxa of Mr. Brown, with spinous fruit, are most remarkable.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003
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