Tomentum: alternatives and connections

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, a…

A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlet…

tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

Having the hair matted with clotted blood.

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…

any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood

perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing p…

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As…

A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.

pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.

Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their bran…

perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to be…

Covered with down, or fine soft hair; downy.