tomentose in a sentence
Examples
- The female cones are open, with sporophylls 17-24 cm long, densely red-brown tomentose.
- The inflorescence spike emerges within the leaf crown, often concealed, and the peduncle is short and tomentose.
- The undivided leaves are tomentose underneath and are 20 to 45 mm long and 4 to 18 mm wide.
- Most mature vegetative parts are tomentose, but the rest of the inflorescence has a sparser covering of short hairs.
- The strong, thick, upright stem is leafy and hairy, woolly-tomentose and usually has only one inflorescence.
- Female cones closed type, sporophylls 13 18 cm long with yellow to gray tomentose . 2-4 ovules per sporophyll.
- Leaves are slightly tomentose when young, nearly glabrous when mature, with a tip that is recoiled ( curved backwards ).
- It is named after the Greek word " brunneus " ( brown ), as the emergent leaves are brown tomentose.
- The Latin word meaning'cushion stuffing,'tomentum, is used to describe a woolly coating formed by the tomentose hairs.
- The broad ovate leaves are long and wide, with the upper side dark green and pilose, and the underside grey tomentose.