Tomentose

Botanical terms for trichome texture

• glabrate – almost hairless, having very few trichomes
• glabrous – lacking hairs or trichomes; surface smooth
• hirsute – coarsely hairy
• hispid – having bristly hairs
• articulate – simple pluricellular-uniseriate hairs
• downy – having an almost wool-like covering of long hairs
• pilose – pubescent with long, straight, soft, spreading or erect hairs
• puberulent – minutely pubescent; having fine, short, usually erect, hairs
• puberulous – slightly covered with minute soft and erect hairs
• pubescent – bearing hairs or trichomes of any type
• retrorse, retrorsely – hairs that point backwards
• strigillose – minutely strigose
• strigose – having straight hairs all pointing in more or less the same direction as along a margin or midrib
• tomentellous – minutely tomentose
• tomentose – covered with dense, matted, woolly hairs
• villosulous – minutely villous
• villous – having long, soft hairs, often curved, but not matted