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PAPPUS (pappi)

Dictionary entry overview: What does pappus mean?

• PAPPUS (noun)
The noun PAPPUS has 1 sense:

1. calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions

Familiarity information: PAPPUS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PAPPUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pappus" is a kind of...):

calyx ((botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pappus"):

thistledown (pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seedlike fruit of a thistle)

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