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tomentum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables
to-men-tum
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.

noun

A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.

noun

A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

tomenta (plural)

Derived Forms

microtomentum

Phrases

basal tomentum

Synonyms

tomentum cerebri hair fuzz

Rhymes With

centum argumentum cementum omentum tegmentum mentum ramentum sarmentum submentum lomentum prementum

Questions

What does tomentum mean?
A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.

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