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🌳 With a leafy crown 🌱 With hair tufts
comate

comate

9.9
A plant with a tuft of leaves or branches at the top
  • adjective
  • Specialized
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  • The comate royal palms stood out against the horizon, their leafy crowns visible from afar.

Examples

  • Some species of grasses are comate, sporting tufts of hairlike bracts atop their stems.

  • Botanists described the new tree as comate due to its dense cluster of leaves at the top.

  • The comate plant stood out in the garden.

  • Isn't that a comate flower?

  • Botanists described the new tree as comate due to its dense cluster of leaves at the top.

  • Some species of grasses are comate, sporting tufts of hairlike bracts atop their stems.

  • The comate royal palms stood out against the horizon, their leafy crowns visible from afar.

Synonyms

comose
vscomate
  • Specialized
9.9

A seed or plant part with a small bunch of hairs at the top

focuses on whole plants rather than any plant part
comal
vscomate
  • Specialized
9.9

Seeds that have a small group of soft hairs to help them float or stick to animals

applies to whole plants rather than only to seeds

Surface Forms

comate positive

Morphology

comate = coma (semi-transparent) = coma + ate

Formed by the productive adjectival suffix '-ate' on 'coma', but the base meaning 'coma' (tuft) is rare and may be confused with the common medical sense of 'coma'.

Etymology

Comate comes from the old Latin word coma, which means 'hair' or 'tuft'. So a comate plant is one that is like a little crown, with a tuft of leaves or branches at the top.