Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tomentum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tomentum \To*men"tum\, n.; pl. {Tomenta}. [L. See {Tomentose}. ]
(Bot.)
The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or
stems of some plants.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tomentum
n 1: filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" [syn: {hair},
{fuzz}]
2: a network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface
of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex [syn: {tomentum
cerebri}]
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