Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A covering of fine, soft hair, as on a leaf, insect, or newborn child.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the coat of delicate downy hairs with which the human fetus is covered for some time before birth.
- noun In botany and zoology, the cottony or woolly growth on the surface of some leaves, fruits, insects, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The soft
down or finehair , specifically as covering the humanfoetus or a tumorous area
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fine, downy hair called lanugo develops on her arms, legs, and back.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Fine, downy hair called lanugo develops on her arms, legs, and back.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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Both boys were limp, wrinkly and covered with fine black hair, known as lanugo, which all fetuses develop but shed at around 33 weeks of gestation.
The Preemie Prism: As her twins enter high school, a mom reflects on their perilous journey Tracey A. Reeves 2010
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Five months after conception, human fetuses grow a thin coat of hair, called lanugo, all over their bodies.
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The human embryo possesses a complete coat of hair, called the lanugo, which usually disappears before birth.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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This covering, which is called the lanugo, and sometimes extends even to the whole forehead, ears, and face, is shed before birth.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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Also, it: is more active, and the mother might begin feeling movement is covered in fine, downy hair called lanugo and a waxy coating called vernix which protects the baby's skin forming underneath. has eyebrows, eyelashes, fingernails, and toenails can hear and swallow
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Also, it: is more active, and the mother might begin feeling movement is covered in fine, downy hair called lanugo and a waxy coating called vernix which protects the baby's skin forming underneath. has eyebrows, eyelashes, fingernails, and toenails can hear and swallow
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Also, it: is more active, and the mother might begin feeling movement is covered in fine, downy hair called lanugo and a waxy coating called vernix which protects the baby's skin forming underneath. has eyebrows, eyelashes, fingernails, and toenails can hear and swallow
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Also, it: is more active, and the mother might begin feeling movement is covered in fine, downy hair called lanugo and a waxy coating called vernix which protects the baby's skin forming underneath. has eyebrows, eyelashes, fingernails, and toenails can hear and swallow
john commented on the word lanugo
"Week 38: Most of the baby's downy hair, lanugo, and whitish coating, vernix, is disappearing."
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October 3, 2007