lanate
1Lanate — La nate, Lanated La na*ted, [L. lanatus, fr. lana wool, down.] 1. Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: (Biol.) covered with dense often matted or curly hairs. Syn: wooly, woolly. [WordNet 1.5] …
2lanate — [lā′nāt΄] adj. [L lanatus, woolly < lana, WOOL] Biol. having a woolly or hairy covering or appearance …
3lanate — adjective covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton • Syn: ↑woolly • Similar to: ↑hairy, ↑haired, ↑hirsute …
4lanate — adj. [L. lana, wool] Covered with long, very fine or wooly hairlike filaments …
5lanate — /lay nayt/, adj. woolly; covered with something resembling wool. Also, lanose. [1750 60; < L lanatus woolly, equiv. to lan(a) wool + atus ATE1] * * * …
6lanate — adjective Covered in or composed of wooly hairs …
7lanate — adj. woolly; covered with wool, covered with a material which resembles wool …
8lanate — a.; (also lanated) Woolly, downy, lanuginous, lanuginose …
9lanate — Woolly with long, intertwined, curly hairs, e.g. the stem apex, emergent leaves, and cones of Encephalartos lanatus. See also hirsute, pilose, pubescent, sericeous, tomentose. Cf. glabrous, nitidus …
10lanate — la·nate …
