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comate

 
Dictionary: co·mate1   ('māt') pronunciation

adj.
Comose.

[Latin comātus, having long hair, from coma, hair. See coma2.]


co·mate2 (kō-māt', kō'māt') pronunciation
n.
A mate; a companion.


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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: (botany) bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts
  Synonym: comose

Meaning #2: (botany; of certain seeds as of cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair
  Synonyms: comose, comal


 
 
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