What's the difference between tomentose and tomentous?
Tomentose
Definition:
(a.) Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inoculations of the submerged mycelium of different age into a solid medium give rise to both "tomentose" variants (TV) with the aerial mycelium and "naked" variants (NV) lacking the aerial mycelium.