Associations to the word «Tomentum»

Wiktionary

TOMENTUM, noun. (botany) A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.
TOMENTUM, noun. (zoology) A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.
TOMENTUM, noun. (anatomy) A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

Dictionary definition

TOMENTUM, noun. Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz".
TOMENTUM, noun. A network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King