LANUGO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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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