Usually means: Tuft of hairs on seeds.
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  1. pappus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Pappus, pappus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pappus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pappus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pappus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pappus, pappus: Wordnik
  7. pappus: Wiktionary
  8. pappus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pappus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pappus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pappus: Dictionary.com
  12. Pappus (botany), Pappus (flower structure): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Pappus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. pappus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. pappus: Rhymezone
  16. Pappus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. pappus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. pappus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. pappus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. pappus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. pappus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pappus: Encyclopedia

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  2. pappus: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pappus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pappus)

▸ noun:  (botany) The markedly reduced sepals of an Asteraceae floret that take the form of trichomes or scale attached to the ovary or seed.
▸ noun:  The first hair on the chin.

Similar:
papilla, palea, pelta, pelt, squamella, semaphyll, sepal, scaphium, spadix, carina, more...

Opposite:
antipappus, contrapappus

Types:
plumose, capillary, barbellate, lanceolate, ciliate, fimbriate, callose, more...

Phrases:
pappus configuration, pappus theorem, Pappus of Alexandria, theorem of pappus, more...

Adjectives:
white, hairy, feathery, short, bristly, like, long, soft, silky, copious, plumose

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Similar:
papilla, palea, pelta, pelt, squamella, semaphyll, sepal, scaphium, spadix, carina, more...

Opposite:
antipappus, contrapappus

Types:
plumose, capillary, barbellate, lanceolate, ciliate, fimbriate, callose, more...

Phrases:
pappus configuration, pappus theorem, Pappus of Alexandria, theorem of pappus, more...

Adjectives:
white, hairy, feathery, short, bristly, like, long, soft, silky, copious, plumose



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