PAPPUS
- a ring of downy hair on a seed [n PAPPUSES or PAPPI]
- a tuft of bristles on the achene of certain plants [n PAPPI] : PAPPOSE [adj], PAPPOUS [adj]
- downy, bristly, or other tuftlike appendage of the achene of certain plants, as the dandelion and the thistle
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