Soft, fibrous material attached to the seeds of some plants which aids their dispersal by the wind; pappus. Also: short, soft hairs on the leaves…

Applied to substances resembling sheep's wool. A downy substance or fibre found on certain trees and plants; also, the thick furry hair of some…

transferred. A down resembling cotton growing on other plants.

The nap or down on a plant; a tuft of the same. Obsolete.

One of the filaments or fibres of a feather; the soft fine feathers or fur of birds or beasts; down, fluff.

Botany. Soft down or pubescence growing on the surface of the leaves, stems, seeds, or other parts of various plants and fungi.

Botany. A covering of short soft hairs on the leaves, stem, etc., of a plant; the quality or condition of being pubescent or downy.

Botany. = pubescence, n. 2. Obsolete.

transferred. Applied to thick down on plants.

The covering of hairs on part of a plant, esp. when dense, e.g. the covering of the lower surface of the leaves of many species of rhododendron. Cf…

Botany. shaggy hairs: see quots. Cf. shag, n.1