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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

tomentum

a stuffing of wool, hair, or feathers: cf. F.

tomenteux

(Bot. & Zool.)

Covered with matted woolly hairs;

as, a

tomentose

leaf; a

tomentose

leaf; a

tomentose

membrane

tomentose ‎(comparative more tomentose, superlative most tomentose)

(biology, entomology) In entomology and plant morphology, a taxonomic component which is covered in hairs. There will be dense matted hairs on leaf, stem or seed.

tomentose

tōmentōse