Crossword-Solution: LANUGO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lanugo | n. | The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LANUGO | anagram | ALGUNO, LUGANO |
We have 4 clues for the answer “LANUGO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Peach fuzz" on a newborn | 1 answer |
| layer of fine hairs, esp the covering of the human fetus before birth | 1 answer |
| Fine hair. | 2 answers |
| Hair __ | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with LANUGO (5)
The fine wool-like hair, or so-called lanugo, with which the human foetus during the sixth month is thickly covered, offers a more curious case.
Brandt informs me that he has compared the hair from the face of a man thus characterised, aged thirty-five, with the lanugo of a foetus, and finds it quite similar in texture; therefore, as he remarks, the case may be attributed to an arrest of development in the hair, together with its continued growth.
From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human foetus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.
But I must first consult Eschricht, and see whether he notices this fact in his curious paper on the lanugo on human embryos; and secondly I ought to look to monkeys and other animals which have tufted ears, and observe how the hair grows.
Forteune is black, short, and "trapu;" curls of the jettiest lanugo invest all his outward man; bunches of muscle stand out from his frame like the statues of Crotonian Milo; his legs are bandy; his hands and feet are large and patulous, and he wants only a hunch to make an admirable Quasimodo.
Quotes with LANUGO (1)
There's one big difference between the poor and the rich,' Kite says, taking a drag from his cigarette. We are in a pub, at lunch-time. John Kite is always, unless stated otherwise, smoking a fag, in a pub, at lunch-time.'The rich aren't evil, as so many of my brothers would tell you. I've known rich people -- I have played on their yachts -- and they are not unkind, or malign, and they do not hate the poor, as many would tell you. And they are not stupid -- or at least, not …