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pappus


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pappus  \Pap"pus\,  n.  [L.,  an  old  man  or  grandfather;  hence  a 
  substance  resembling  gray  hairs,  Gr  ?.]  (Bot.) 
  The  hairy  or  feathery  appendage  of  the  achenes  of  thistles, 
  dandelions,  and  most  other  plants  of  the  order 
  {Composit[ae]};  also  the  scales,  awns,  or  bristles  which 
  represent  the  calyx  in  other  plants  of  the  same  order 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pappus 
  n  :  calyx  composed  of  scales  or  bristles  or  featherlike  hairs  in 
  plants  of  the  Compositae  such  as  thistles  and  dandelions 




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