a. [f. L. lāniger (f. lāna wool + ger- carrying) + -OUS.] Wool-bearing; woolly.
1608. Topsell, Serpents (1658), 784. Whether there be within them [spiders] a certain lanigerous fertility … as in silkworms.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lanigerous Trees, those sort of Trees that bear a woolly, downy Substance; as … Poplars, Willows, and Osiers.
1786–7. trans. Savary’s Lett. fr. Egypt, I. 316. This triangular rush [the papyrus] … bears a lanigerous tuft.
1839. G. Raymond, in New Monthly Mag., LVII. 408. He had a bushy, lanigerous head.
1840. T. Southey (title), A Treatise on Sheep,… suggesting ideas for the introduction of other Lanigerous Animals, suited to the Climate.
1881. Academy, No. 491. 252/1. To him [E. W. White] the Republic is ‘a … lanigerous and pelliferous region.’
