Having long, flowing hair; characterized by abundance of hair or a hairy appearance.
From Latin 'comosus,' derived from 'coma' meaning 'hair' or 'foliage.' The term was used botanically and zoologically to describe organisms with hair-like or flowing appendages.
Comous appears in old botanical texts to describe plants with hairy stems—the same Latin root 'coma' became the astronomical term for the glowing envelope around a comet, which looks like flowing hair around the nucleus!
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