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Meaning of COMOSE

Pronunciation:  'kowmows

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  (botany; of certain seeds as of cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair; "comate (or comose) seeds"; "a comal tuft"
  2. [adj]  (botany) bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts; "comate royal palms"; "pineapples are comate"
 
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 Synonyms: comal, comate, crowned, hairy, hirsute
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Co"mose\ (k[=o]"m[=o]s or k[-o]*m[=o]s"), a. [L. comosus
hairy, from coma hair.] (Bot.)
Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of
milkweed. --Gray.
 
Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: Having a tuft of hair.
 

 

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