tomentum

Plural: tomenta

Noun

• A dense covering of fine, soft hairs, especially on plants or insects.
• filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
• a network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex
• A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.
• A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.
• A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

Examples

• The word TOMENTUM, like fine hairs, felt surprisingly soft and gave him a high score.

Synonyms

fuzz, hair, tomentum cerebri