comose

[koh-mohs]

adjective

1. hairy; comate.

comose

/ kəʊˈməʊs, ˈkəʊməʊs /

adjective

1. botany another word for comate

Word History and Origins

Origin of comose¹

1785–95; < Latin comōsus, equivalent to com ( a ) (< Greek kómē hair, foliage of trees or plants) + -ōsus -ose ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of comose¹

C18: from Latin comōsus hairy, from coma long hair; see _coma ²

Example Sentences

Perigynium less inflated, more conspicuously nerved or even costate, and with more or less setaceous or awned teeth; scale usually awned; spikes mostly nodding or spreading, comose in appearance, greenish, greenish-yellow, or ochroleucous.—Sp.

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Aug., Sept.—Stems, including the dense leaves, ½´ thick; the comose spike, with its longer spreading leaves, ¾–1´ thick.

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Seeds comose, with a tuft of long silky down at the apex.—Perennial herbs, with upright branching stems, opposite mucronate-pointed leaves, a tough fibrous bark, and small and pale cymose flowers on short pedicels.

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