tomentum

1. 1.

   filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

   “peach fuzz”

   Synonymshairfuzz

   Broaderplant process

   Narrowerstinging hairbeard
2. 2.

   a network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex

   Synonymstomentum cerebri

   Broadercapillary

Other forms of tomentum

plural

tomenta

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tomentum

What does tomentum mean?

tomentum means "filamentous hairlike growth on a plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tomentum?

tomentum has 3 syllables: to-men-tum. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for tomentum?

Close synonyms include hair, fuzz, tomentum cerebri. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tomentum a common word?

tomentum is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.