lanuginous.

Covered with fine, soft, downy hairs or fibers.

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Words that belong together

• a lanuginous surface
• lanuginous leaves

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The leaf’s lanuginous surface softened the reflected light.

Fine fibers gave the coating a lanuginous appearance under magnification.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Relational or descriptive adjective; more/most only where a natural degree exists. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.