Look up: Pappus

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   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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   Pappus
   A whorl or tuft of delicate bristles.
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   Pappus
   Pap'pus noun [ Latin , an old man or grandfather; hence, a substance resembling gray hairs, Greek ....] (Botany) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositæ ; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.
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   pappus
   A tuft (or ring) of hairs or scales borne above the ovary and outside the corolla (possibly representing the calyx), a tuft of hairs on a fruit. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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   pappus
   noun calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions
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   Pappus
   `Pappus`, in a composite flower, is the element of the individual disk and ray flowers that surrounds the flower structure, in the same manner at the base as calyx does in a non-compound flower. Pappuses may be like bristles, teeth or scales and are usually too diminutive to discern without some type of magnification device. The etymology of this name is that it derives from the Ancient Greek word `pappos`, Latin `pappus`, meaning `old man`, but ...
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   Pappus
   • (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.
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   pappus
   (from the article `Asterales`) The calyx (sepals) of the Asterales is so highly modified, in contrast to that of other orders, that it is given a different name, the pappus. The ... ...at its base one or more series of leaflike bracts. The small individual flowers arise in spiral order on the receptacle, the youngest being at the ... ...
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   Pappus
   Pappus (păp'us) , fl. c.300, Greek mathematician of Alexandria. He recorded and enlarged on the results of his predecessors, including Euclid and Apollonius of Perga, in his Mathematical Collection (8 books; date conjectural). The six and a half extant books, edited and translated into Lat...
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