comose

American  

[koh-mohs] / ˈkoʊ moʊs /

adjective

1. hairy; comate.

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comose British  

/ kəʊˈməʊs, ˈkəʊməʊs /

adjective

1. botany another word for comate

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Etymology

Origin of comose

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

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.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Ovary 1-celled, becoming a 2-valved pod with two parietal or basal placentæ bearing numerous small comose seeds; perianth none.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa