Usually means: Dense, matted, woolly plant hairs.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word tomentum:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. tomentum: Merriam-Webster
  2. tomentum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tomentum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tomentum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tomentum: Vocabulary.com
  6. tomentum: Wordnik
  7. tomentum: Wiktionary
  8. tomentum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tomentum: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tomentum: Dictionary.com
  11. Tomentum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Tomentum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. tomentum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. tomentum: Rhymezone
  15. Tomentum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. tomentum: FreeDictionary.org
  17. tomentum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. tomentum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tomentum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tomentum: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tomentum: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. tomentum: Rhododendron Glossary
  4. Bryological (No longer online)

(Note: See tomenta as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tomentum)

noun:  (botany) A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.
noun:  (zoology) A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.
noun:  (anatomy) A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

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