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Definition: Lanugo |
LanugoNoun1. The fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lanugo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Note: Lanugo \La*nu"go\, noun. [See Lanuginose.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Lanugo |
| Non-English Usage: "Lanugo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (down, fluff), Latin (down, youth). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lanugo | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lanugo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | lanugo. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | lanugo, donshaar. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | lanugo. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Fetalhaarkleid. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | τρίχωμα του εμβρύου. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hebrew | כשות (down, fluff, hops). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | lanugine (down, floss, fluff, fuzz). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | anugolay lanugo. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lanugo": lanugos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "lanugo" (pronounced 'La*nu"go'): AErugo, Amigo, Arango, Argo, Bongo, Botargo, Bungo, Caligo, Camerlingo, Cargo, Cerago, Chimango, Colugo, Contango, Cundurango, Dago, Dingo, Drongo, Ego, Ergo, Eringo, Eryngo, Fandango, Farrago, Ferrugo, Fidalgo, flamingo, galago, Ginkgo, gringo, Hidalgo, Hogo, imago, Imbargo, impetigo, intertrigo, jingo, Largo, lentigo, lingo, lumbago, mango, Melligo, Non-ego, Pichiciago, plumbago, Pongo, Potargo, Prurigo, Rubigo, sago, Sargo, Sego, Serpigo, Solidago, sorgo, Squintifego, Stingo, Subimago, Suffrago, supercargo, tango, Tongo, Tschego, Virago, Vitiligo. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: along, gluon, guano, logan. | |
-2 letters: agon, gaol, gaun, goal, guan, lang, loan, long, luna, lung, ulan, ulna. | |
-3 letters: ago, gal, gan, gnu, goa, gul, gun, lag, log, lug, nag, nog. | |
-4 letters: ag, al, an, go, la, lo, na, no, nu, on, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: languor, lanugos. | |
+2 letters: analogue, angulose, angulous, bungalow, clangour, conjugal, glucagon, languors, shogunal. | |
+3 letters: analogous, analogues, aureoling, bungalows, clangours, coagulant, cupolaing, glucagons, gluconate, granuloma, granulose, hulloaing, labouring, langouste, neuroglia, nonleague, onslaught, outlawing, outlaying, ovulating, unloading, uploading. | |
+4 letters: angulation, autolysing, autolyzing, boxhauling, buffaloing, caliginous, callousing, clamouring, clangorous, clangoured, coagulants, conjugally, copulating, dialoguing, flavouring, gadolinium, gelatinous, glamouring, glauconite, gluconates, granulator, granulomas, granuloses, granulosis, halogenous, langoustes, languorous, lanuginous, loungewear, modulating, neuroglial, neuroglias, oleaginous, onslaughts, osculating, outbawling, outblazing, outfabling, outgeneral, outglaring, outlasting, outleaping, outplaying, outsailing, outtalking, outvaluing, outwalking, playground, populating, regulation, uncloaking, unoriginal, urbanology, urogenital. | |
+5 letters: analogously, angulations, antifouling, autoclaving, autoloading, belabouring, cataloguing, clangouring, coagulating, coagulation, collagenous, conjugality, conjugately, dangerously, formulating, fulguration, gadoliniums, glauconites, glauconitic, glucokinase, glucosamine, glutathione, granulation, granulators, granulocyte, granulomata, gratulation, inoculating, langoustine, ligamentous, monolingual, nongranular, nonlanguage, nonsurgical, outbleating, outbrawling, outcaviling, outclassing, outcrawling, outdazzling, outflanking, outgenerals, outlaughing, outlearning, outplanning, outrivaling, overhauling, overvaluing, pelargonium, playgrounds, postulating, regulations, sporulating, subregional, subtotaling, sulfonating, uncataloged, uncongenial, unglamorous, unhallowing, unignorable, vulcanology. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 6E 75 67 6F |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -. ..- --. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101110 01110101 01100111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a n u g o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 006E 0075 0067 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466780877381 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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