having very minute fine hairs on the surface.
a. (L. tomentum, down) densely covered with short, matted hair.
densely woolly; the hairs soft and matted
densely pubescent with short wooly hairs
covered with densely matted filaments
densely covered with short matted woolly hairs; "a tomentose leaf"
Covered with densely matted hairs.
densely hairy with wooly hair.
woolly, covered in fine mesh of hairs
Closely covered with down or matted hair.
Vestiture of dense, short, soft, matted hairs.
a dense covering of short cottony hairs.
Covered with matted, wooly hair.
Covered with tangled or matted, woolly hairs.