pannose

[pan-ohs]

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adjective Botany.

having the texture of felt or woolen cloth.

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Origin of pannose

1865–70; < Latin pannōsus full of rags, tattered, equivalent to pann(us) cloth, rag (cf. pane) + -ōsus -ose¹

Related formspan·nose·ly, adverb

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