Associations to the word «Indumentum»

Wiktionary

INDUMENTUM, noun. (botany) A surface covering of any kind of trichomes, e.g. hairs, scales.

Dictionary definition

INDUMENTUM, noun. A covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope