Associations to the word «Tomentum»

Wiktionary

TOMENTUM, noun. (botany) A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.
TOMENTUM, noun. (zoology) A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.
TOMENTUM, noun. (anatomy) A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

Dictionary definition

TOMENTUM, noun. Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz".
TOMENTUM, noun. A network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

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