6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
adjective bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts
adjective of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair
originFirst attested in 1600; borrowed from Latin cōmātus, from cōma (“hair”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0