tomentum
Americannoun
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tomenta
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noun
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a feltlike covering of downy hairs on leaves and other plant parts
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a network of minute blood vessels occurring in the human brain between the pia mater and cerebral cortex
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Origin of tomentum
1690–1700; < New Latin tōmentum, Latin: stuffing (of wool, hair, etc.) for cushions
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P. convexo-plane, broadly and obtusely umb. pallid grey; with thin hoary tomentum; g. crowded, whitish then dingy, broadest behind; s. equal, often curved, pallid, base strigose; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The stem is short, solid or with a slight cavity, often slightly thickened at the top, pruinose, gray, with a white, mycelioid tomentum at the base.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
It is dwarf, spreading, little more than a foot high, with ovate leaves with brownish tomentum on the under surface.
From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook
The stem is short and rather thick, often swollen, covered with a reddish-brown tomentum.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
It bears short-stalked ovate or oblong leaves, with strongly marked veins, and covered with a soft tomentum or down.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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