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Definition of Comose
1. Adjective. Bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts. "Pineapples are comate"
2. 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 Comose
1. a. Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.
Definition of Comose
1. bearing a tuft of silky hairs [adj]
Medical Definition of Comose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Comose
Literary usage of Comose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"... short, erect, one margin pellucid. Stigma flat, included. Follicle* terete,
smooth. Seeds comose. F. indica, Dak. in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 10, t. 3. ..."
2. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The large three- sided follicles are widely divaricate, with an incurved apex
and comose seeds. The plants of this genus abound in milky juice, ..."
3. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"hooked at the tip, and comose seeds. should be compared with this species ; there
are not accompanying notes. 13. ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Seeds comose. Corolla funnel-form, not appendaged. Filamente elender. ...
Seeds comose. Corolla bell-shaped, appendaged within. Filaments short. broad and ..."
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