Lexicographical Neighbors of Comous
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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