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lanate

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la⋅nate

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

Origin:
1750–60; < L lānātus woolly, equiv. to lān(a) wool + -ātus -ate 1
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la·nate   (lā'nāt')   
adj.  Having or consisting of woolly hairs.

[Latin lānātus, from lāna, wool.]
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