COMAS

Noun

comas

plural of coma

Anagrams

• MACOS, Mosca, camos, macOS

Source: Wiktionary


COMA

Co"ma, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Cemetery.]

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

Co"ma, n. Etym: [L., hair, fr. Gr.

1. (Astron.)

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

2. (Bot.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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