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Pappus meaning
The markedly reduced sepals of an Asteraceae floret that take the form of trichomes or scale attached to the ovary or seed. | The first downy hairs that appear on the chin.
Synonyms of Pappus
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A projective plane satisfying Pappus's theorem universally is called a Pappian plane.
In any case, according to Pappus, Hipparchus found that the least distance is 71 (from this eclipse), and the greatest 81 Earth radii.
In some species, however, the pappus falls off (for example in Helianthus ).
Pappus of Alexandria described it (in his commentary on the Almagest of that chapter), as did Proclus (Hypotyposis IV).
There had been some early work in this area by Hellenistic geometers, notably Pappus (c. 340).
Wind dispersal is common ( anemochory ) assisted by a hairy pappus.