tomentose.

Covered with a dense, often matted layer of short, soft hairs.

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Words that belong together

• tomentose leaves
• a tomentose surface

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The tomentose leaves looked silver where the light caught their hairs.

She compared the tomentose surface with the sparse fibers on the younger growth.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Relational or descriptive adjective; more/most only where a natural degree exists. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.