Definition of Comous

1. comose [adj] - See also: comose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Comous

comodo
comodule
comodules
comonad
comonads
comonoid
comonoids
comonomer
comonomers
comorbid
comorbidities
comorbidity
comorbidly
comoros
comose
comous (current term)
comove
comoved
comovement
comovements
comoves
comoving
comoviridae
comovirus
comp
comp sci
comp stomp
compacity
compact
compact-disk burner

Literary usage of Comous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"... pollinia solitary, 4-lobed; follicles 2, smooth, divaricate; seeds comous.—Twining shrubs. ... seeds comous.— 2£ Mostly N. American, with opposite, ..."

2. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"... fixed by the apex, pendulous ; stigma bifid ; follicles 2, smooth ; seeds comous. ... pollinia 5 pairs, horizontal ; follicles turgid, seeds comous. ..."

3. Narratives of Early Carolina, 1650-1708 by Alexander Samuel Salley (1911)
"They have three sorts of the Rattle-Snake Root which I have seen; the comous, or Hairy, the Smooth, ..."

4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... or comous, pilose or (rare) pilous, peline (rare), pilc- ous (rare), rough, tomentose, woolly, ..."

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