lanosity

lanosity

English

Etymology

From Latin lanositas.

Noun

lanosity (uncountable)

1. (botany, zoology, rare) The quality of being lanose, or woolly.
   • 1907, Alfred Geddes Maddren, Smithsonian Exploration in Alaska in 1904: In Search of Mammoth and Other Fossil Remains, Smithsonian Institution, page 126,

     Distinguished from H. crenulatus and allied species by the lanosity of the hands ; from H. oregonensis in its nearly straight and dilated front.

   • 1953, Reed Clark Rollins (editor-in-chief), Rhodora, Volume 55, New England Botanical Club, page 56,

     Similar to typical A.^[Arnica] frigida Meyer in its general appearance and technical characters, but the lanosity of the tegules and of the hypocephalum is completely lacking, being replaced by a fine glandulosity.

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