What is "comose"

Comose \Co"mose\ (k[=o]"m[=o]s or k[-o]*m[=o]s"), a. [L. comosus hairy, from coma hair.] (Bot.) Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.
--Gray.

a. (context botany English) Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down.

1. adj. bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts; "comate royal palms"; "pineapples are comate" [syn: comate]

2. of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair; "comate (or comose) seeds"; "a comal tuft" [syn: comate, comal]