Medical Definition of Lanuginous
1. Covered with lanugo. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lanuginous
Literary usage of Lanuginous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Vulgo—Mouse-ear Cud-weed. Root perennial. Stem 2 or 3 to 6 inches high, lanuginous,
hoary with a ... (or often loosely lanuginous) above, hoary and densely ..."
2. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"Scales or leaves of the involucrum lanuginous, the lower ones armed with spines,
the upper simple, acute. Corolla purple. Grows in the mountains of Carolina ..."
3. Manual of Human and Comparative Histology by Salomon Stricker (1872)
"Where a thick, permanent hair, the papilla of which extends as far as the
subcutaneous connective tissue, replaces a fine lanuginous hair, the papilla of ..."
4. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... loal corymbose clusters, forming altogether a large corymbose panic)«, very
fragrant; involucre longer than the disk, lanuginous at base, the leaflets ..."
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