lanate

la·nate

[ley-neyt]
adjective
woolly; covered with something resembling wool.
Also, lanose.


Origin:
1750–60; < Latin lānātus woolly, equivalent to lān(a) wool + -ātus -ate1

sub·la·nate, adjective
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lanate or lanose (ˈleɪneɪt, ˈleɪnəʊs, -nəʊz) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
having or consisting of a woolly covering of hairs
 
[C18: from Latin lānātus, from lāna wool]
 
lanose or lanose
 
adj
 
[C18: from Latin lānātus, from lāna wool]

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Lanate is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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