Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a coma; comate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hairy: comate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts
  • adjective of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair

Etymologies

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Latin comosus ("hairy").

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