Tomentose

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tomentose \To"men*tose`\, a. [L. tomentum a stuffing of wool,
     hair, or feathers: cf. F. tomenteux.] (Bot. & Zool.)
     Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a
     tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tomentose
       adj 1: covered with densely matted filaments
       2: densely covered with short matted woolly hairs; "a tomentose
          leaf" [syn: {tomentous}]