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Webster 1913 Edition

Pappus

Pap′pus

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Noun.
[L., an old man or grandfather; hence, a substance resembling gray hairs, Gr. [GREEK].]
(Bot.)
The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order
Compositæ
; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pappus

PAP'PUS

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Noun.
[L. from Gr. an old man or grandfather,hence a substance resembling gray hairs.] The soft downy substance that grows on the seeds of certain plants, as on those of the thistle.

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