a. Bot. and Ent. [ad. L. lānāt-us, f. lāna wool: see -ATE2.] Having a woolly covering or surface.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., III. v. (1765), 182. Lanate, woolly, when they are covered as it were with a spider’s web.

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 275. Lanate (Lanata), covered with fine, very long, flexible and rather curling hairs like wool.

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  So Lanated a., in the same sense.

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1828–32.  in Webster.

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