Definition of Pannose

1. a. Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.

Definition of Pannose

1. like felt [adj]

Medical Definition of Pannose

1. Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth. See: Pannus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pannose

pannicular hernia
panniculectomy
panniculitis
panniculus
panniculus carnosus muscle
pannier
panniered
pannierlike
panniers
pannikel
pannikels
pannikin
pannikins
panning
pannings
pannose (current term)
pannus
pannuses
pano-
panobacumab
panobinostat
panocha
panochas
panoche
panoches
panocracy
panodic
panoistic
panomphean

Literary usage of Pannose

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

1. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1897)
"Pubescence somewhat pannose : stems rather stout: leaves round- cordate, acute or short-acuminate, veiny, 2 to 4 inches long, rather long-petioled: flowers ..."

2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"The most interesting features shown are the production of special thick-walled, interlaced hyphae from the vegetative mycelium, forming a persistent pannose ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"Very hairy plants generally covered with thick pannose pubescence, which retain the moisture, as species of Eriogonum, Astragalus, ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"Very hairy plants generally covered by thick pannose pubescence, which retain the moisture, as species of Eriogonum, Astragalus, Euro- //. ..."

5. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1905)
"... pannose-stellate pubescence of the leaves, which entirely lack the longer simple hairs of that species. It is much less leafy, and the silique is tipped ..."

6. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"pannose, covered with a felt of woolly hairs. Papery, of about the consistence of letter-paper. Papilionaceous, butterfly-shaped; applied to such a corolla ..."

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