'Berenice's Hair' definitions:
Definition of 'Berenice's Hair'
From: GCIDE
- Berenice's Hair \Ber`e*ni"ce's Hair`\ [See Berenice's Locks, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.] (Astron.) See Coma Berenices, under Coma. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Berenice's Hair'
From: GCIDE
- Coma \Co"ma\, n. [L., hair, fr. Gr. ko`mh.]
- 1. (Astron.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Coma Berenices[L.] (Astron.), a small constellation north of Virgo; -- called also Berenice's Hair. [1913 Webster]