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Definition of Comal
1. Adjective. Of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair. "A comal tuft"
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Similar to: Haired, Hairy, Hirsute
Derivative terms: Coma
Definition of Comal
1. comose [adj] - See also: comose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comal
Literary usage of Comal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The comal route is of immense importance, both it a commercial and strategic
line, and in both particulars is of far greater significance than either the ..."
2. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"ovate-acuminate, the comal oblong-ovate, lanceolate, cuspidate by the excurrent
costa, bordered by a brown margin, reflexed from the base to the middle, ..."
3. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1888)
"Was it, then, the intention of the vendor to make the east or southeast bank of
the comal the boundary of the land conveyed to the appellant? ..."
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