tomentose
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tomentose
From the New Latin word tōmentōsus, dating back to 1690–1700. See tomentum, -ose 1
Example Sentences
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Usually low, persistently tomentose, rarely at all glabrate; leaves much smaller, spatulate to oblong, all entire or some cut-toothed or pinnatifid; achenes glabrous.—N. Minn.,
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 Asa Gray
Sepals.—Rather narrow; six lines long or less; minutely tomentose.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
P. 9-18 cm. umbil. tomentose, zoneless; g. decurrent, distant; s. solid, pubescent, 5-8 cm.; milk scanty, white; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. fleshy, campan.-exp. obtusely umb. covered with reddish brick-coloured, innate interwoven fibrils; g. crowded; s. solid, narrowed upwards, glabrous, reddish below, becoming pale, base tomentose.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. plane or depr. even, yellow brown then paler; g. citrin; s. bay towards fusiform rooting base, with a purplish tomentose ring.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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