tomentose

adjective

Covered with short, dense, matted hairs.

In botany, covered with hairs so close as scarcely to be distinguished; densely pubescent with matted wool or tomentum; coated with down-like hairs.

In entomology, clothed with short inconspicuous hairs interwoven or matted together.

In anatomy, fleecy; flocculent. See tomentum, 2.

adjective

Covered with matted woolly hairs.

adjective

(entomology) In entomology and plant morphology, a taxonomic component which is covered in hairs. There will be dense matted hairs on leaf, stem or seed.

adjective

densely covered with short matted woolly hairs

adjective

covered with densely matted filaments