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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 gestationplay

  Familiarity information: LANUGO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LANUGO (noun)


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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