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Definition of Pappose
1. Adjective. (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles.
Definition of Pappose
1. a. Furnished with a pappus; downy.
Definition of Pappose
1. pappus [adj] - See also: pappus
Medical Definition of Pappose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pappose
Literary usage of Pappose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"... and pappose at the base and apex.—Don, Miller's Diet. kHE genus Catalpa was
constituted by Jussieu from the Bignonia catalpa of Tournefort, ..."
2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... and broad at the summit, usually but not always pappose, more or less 4-angular,
not glandular, ..."
3. Publications of the Nebraska State Historical Society by Nebraska State Historical Society (1898)
"The local winds bear, besides comose and pappose seeds, those of the ... High winds
do not, as many may suppose, bear the lighter comose, pappose, ..."
4. Outlines of elementary botany by Alexander Silver (1877)
"Leaves opposite or whorled, exstipulate; flowers in capitula with an involucre;
calyx inferior, limb membranous or pappose ; corolla tubular, limb somewhat ..."
5. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"Corolla-tube equal or gibbous. Stamens 3...1. Valeriana. Calyx pappose. Corolla-tube
spurred. Stamen 1 1*. Centranthus. Calyx toothed or lobed. ..."
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