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LANUGO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lanugo mean?
• LANUGO (noun)
The noun LANUGO has 1 sense:
1. the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation
Familiarity information: LANUGO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("lanugo" is a kind of...):
down; pile (fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs))
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