Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with short, dense, matted hairs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, covered with hairs so close as scarcely to be distinguished; densely pubescent with matted wool or tomentum; coated with down-like hairs.
- In entomology, clothed with short inconspicuous hairs interwoven or matted together.
- In anatomy, fleecy; flocculent. See
tomentum , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot. & Zoöl.) Covered with matted woolly hairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology (
entomology ) Inentomology andplant morphology , ataxonomic component which is covered inhairs . There will bedense matted hairs on leaf, stem or seed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective densely covered with short matted woolly hairs
- adjective covered with densely matted filaments
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Deer don't like strongly scented plants, so mint and rosemary are deterrents, as are plants with fuzzy (tomentose) leaves.
The temperamental rose offers rewards in color, fragrance and luxuriance 2010
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GREVILLEA FLORIBUNDA may have been an allied species, for the leaves were more downy, almost tomentose above.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The leaves are trifoliate with tomentose leaflets that have the typical reticulate venation of yams, 12-16 cm long, 6-9 cm broad: the petioles are pubescent and often spiny.
Chapter 37 1987
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_ Black, with gilded tomentum, which forms two bands on the thorax, and one on each side of the pectus; abdomen with three gilded tomentose bands, the third subapical, first segment ferruginous beneath; legs tawny, femora at the base and coxæ black; wings blackish-brown, dark cinereous hindward; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_ Coal-black, shining; antennæ tawny; thorax slightly tomentose; spines of the scutellum and legs white; wings blackish grey, paler towards the hind border, veins black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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On hills about camp, Labiata nova, and a curious tomentose plant were the only novelties.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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+Cap+ 2 to 5 inches broad, yellowish-brown, convex, dry, firm, glabrous or minutely tomentose, flesh yellow or pale yellow.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Mostly small southern ferns growing on rocks, pubescent or tomentose with much divided leaves.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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The stems are sometimes white, tomentose at the base.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Some of the cocoons have attached to them the remains of the tomentose stalk of the plant upon which they were formed; others have portions of
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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