Associations to the word «Tomentose»

Wiktionary

TOMENTOSE, adjective. (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.

Dictionary definition

TOMENTOSE, adjective. Covered with densely matted filaments.
TOMENTOSE, adjective. Densely covered with short matted woolly hairs; "a tomentose leaf".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope