Pappus Definition

păpəs
pappi
noun
A group or tuft of prongs, bristles, scales, or simple or branched hairs, as on the achenes of the dandelion, forming the modified calyx of the composite and certain other families and serving in the dispersal of the fruit.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pappus

Noun

Singular:
pappus
Plural:
pappi

Origin of Pappus

  • Latin old man, down on certain seeds from Greek pappos papa in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pappus Sentence Examples

  • Pappus quotes from three books of Mechanics and from a work called Barulcus, both by Hero.

  • Pappus, in his Collections, treats of its history, and gives two methods by which it can be generated.

  • Any plane section of the screw (plectoidal of Pappus) surface so obtained is the quadratrix.

  • He continued his studies in Strassburg, under the professor of Hebrew, Johannes Pappus (1549-1610), a zealous Lutheran, the crown of whose life's work was the forcible suppression of Calvinistic preaching and worship in the city, and who had great influence over him.

  • His only extant work is a short treatise (with a commentary by Pappus) On the Magnitudes and Distances of the Sun and Moon.

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Words Starting With

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SUSPUS

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Words Starting With P and Ending With S

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