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- Coma - n. - A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
- Coma - n. - The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.
- Coma - n. - A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
- Comanches - n. pl. - A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.
- Comart - n. - A covenant.
- Comate - a. - Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.
- Comatose - a. - Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.
- Comatous - a. - Comatose.
- Comatula - n. - A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.
- Comatulid - n. - Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.