Pappus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 47 anagrams from letters in pappus (apppsu).
1695-1705; New Latin Greek páppos down, literally, grandfather (taken as greybeard, white hairs, down)
Further, the hairs which constitute the pappus may be simple or feathered.
Achenes 10-ribbed; pappus of stout bristles, chaffy-dilated at the base.
Springing from the top of the ovary are a number of fine bristles (the pappus).
Achenes 10-ribbed; pappus of rather rigid bristles, not plumose.
The structure of the pappus is best observed in the ripe fruit.
Calyx absent or represented by a whorl of silky hairs (pappus).
Name from , to be deficient, alluding to the absence of pappus.
pappus pilosus, denticulato scaber, pluriserialis, radiolis exterioribus brevioribus.
The pappus in this genus is very short, and it is scaly rather than feathery.
Achenes obovate, flattened, wingless, and without any pappus.