a. scientific. [ad. L. lanūginōs-us, f. lānūgin- (lānūgo) down, f. lāna wool: see -OSE.] = next.
1693. Phil. Trans., XVII. 684. The Stone is oblong flattish, and lanuginose.
1731. Massey, ibid., XXXVII. 218. These … soon became covered with an exceeding white fine lanuginose Substance.
1826. in Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 275.
