COMA

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

2.
n.

The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.

3.
n.

A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of brachts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. Coma Berenices ( Etym: [L.] (Astron.), a small constellation north of Virgo; -- called also Berenice's Hair.


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