Similar words: cappuccino, appurtenant, appurtenance, pappy, wrapping paper, keep up appearances, oppugn, seppuku. Meaning: ['pæpəs] 
n. calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions.
n. calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions. 
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1 Achenes 8 - ribbed, white pilose; pappus scabrous, 10 - 12 mm long, connate at base.
2 After dispersal, the short pappus of the achenes can adhere to the wet soil surface so that the achenes remain near the dead mother plant and germinate there.
3 The seeds often furnished with apical pappus , can act as parachutes for wind-dispersal.
4 Parachute n. special structure of seeds such us aril, caruncle, pappus , or wing, which aids dispersal by wind; a fold of skin used for gliding as in flying squirrels.
5 Some examples are given by inscribed and circumscribed circles of polygons, lines intersecting and tangent to conic sections, the Pappus and Menelaus configurations of points and lines.
6 The third and fourth chapters introduce the famous theorems of Desargues and Pappus.
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