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Definition of Tomentous
1. Adjective. Densely covered with short matted woolly hairs. "A tomentose leaf"
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Haired, Hairy, Hirsute
Definition of Tomentous
1. a. Tomentose.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tomentous
Literary usage of Tomentous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1846)
"... margins of the lobes being tomentous in aestivation, but afterwards quite smooth.
FABIANA. This genus was first proposed by the authors of the Flora ..."
2. The American Homœopathic Pharmacopœia (1904)
"Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptical, sub- acuminate and scarcely dentate, rough
above and tomentous beneath. Flowers in corymbs, opposite and axillary. ..."
3. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"Lvs. (when young), pedicels and calyx densely tomentous. Lm ovate and oblong,
distinctly lobed ; (fr. not seen).—Sent from Iowa by Dr. Cousens. ..."
4. Class Book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"Ell.) * Scales of the involucre acute, downy-tomentous. Kos. ... mostly appressed,
glandular tomentous.—Swamps, Va. to Ga. Si 2f high, bearing a loose, ..."
5. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"... -tomentous beneath, odd one stalked ; cor. cup-shaped, white. ... sep.
hoary-tomentous, pointed, longer than the white petals ; fruit red, white, ..."
6. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... in a loose, compound corymb. Pine-barrens, Va. to Fla. 1—8f. Used to perfume
tobacco. 2 It. panic u là la Willd. Viscid-tomentous ; Ivs. ..."
7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1855)
"... being covered with a tomentous down, that is almost wholly concealed ...
the margin of the torus; they are covered within by tomentous whitish hairs, ..."
8. The London Medical and Physical Journal (1821)
"Some. times, also, a reddish, and somewhat tomentous, substance is developed
between them, which originates between the inequalities they present, ..."
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