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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective comose has 2 senses
- comose(s = adj.all) comate - bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts; "comate royal palms"; "pineapples are comate"
- comose(s = adj.all) comal, comate - of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair; "comate (or comose) seeds"; "a comal tuft"
CIDE DICTIONARY
comose, a. [L. comosus hairy, from coma hair.].
Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed. Gray. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
comose, adj. Bot. (of seeds etc.) having hairs, downy.
Etymology
L comosus (as COMA(2))
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