Lanate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lanate \La"nate\, Lanated \La"na*ted\, [L. lanatus, fr. lana
     wool, down.]
     1. Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence: (Biol.) covered with dense often matted or curly


        hairs.
  
     Syn: wooly, woolly.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lanate
       adj : covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments; "the
             woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton" [syn:
              {woolly}]