pappus, i, m., = pa/ppos. I.An old man, Varr. L. L. 7, 30 Müll.—2.A grandfather, Aus. Idyll. 4, 18.—II.The woolly, hairy seed of certain plants, Lucr. 3, 386 Lachm.; also ap. Fest. p. 220 Müll.: semen ei lanuginis, quam pappon vocant, Plin. 21, 16, 57, 97.—III.A plant, also called erigeron: quare eam Callimachus acanthida appellat, alii pappum, Plin. 25, 13, 106, 168.