lanugo

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area. countable,uncountable
    — From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human fœtus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.

词形变化

lanugos plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂
Proto-Italic *wlāna
Latin lāna
Latin -ūgō
Latin lānūgōbor.
English lanugo
Borrowed from Latin lānūgō.
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