Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PAP'PUS
PAP'PUS, n. [L. from Gr. παππος, an old man or grandfather, hence a substance resembling gray hairs.]
The hairy, feathery, or membranous calyx of the individual florets in certain compound flowers belonging to the Linnean class Syngenesia.
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