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"ref": "1874, Charles Darwin, “Chaper XX”, in The Descent of Man:",
"text": "From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human fœtus, 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.",
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"ref": "1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:",
"text": "[…] early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines […]",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tāimáo",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"word": "胎毛"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tāifà",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"word": "胎髮 /胎发"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "nǎimáo",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"word": "奶毛"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
"word": "untuvakarva"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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"sense": "soft down or fine hair",
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