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Definition of Lanate
1. Adjective. Covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments. "The woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton"
Definition of Lanate
1. Adjective. Covered in or composed of wooly hairs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lanate
1. covered with wool [adj]
Medical Definition of Lanate
1. Wooly, with long, intertwined, curled hairs. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lanate
Literary usage of Lanate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"... terminating in a leafy corymbose inflorescence of few heads, sparsely
lanate-pubescent as are also the leaves: leaves entire, narrowly to broadly linear ..."
2. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver, David Prain, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1877)
"... outer lanate, shorter, margins scarious, midrib green not reaching the apex
... lower narrowed into the winged petiole, thinly appressed-lanate beneath, ..."
3. Orchidaceae: Illustrations and Studies of the Family Orchidaceae by Oakes Ames (1920)
"Sepals densely white lanate without (somewhat so within). ... Column about 5 mm.
long, slender, arcuate, flattened on the interior lanate surface; ..."
4. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Perennial, with a taproot, simple or with a branched caudex; stems 1-1.5 dm.
high, densely arachnoid-lanate; leaves numerous, 3-6 cm. long, the basal ones ..."
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