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κόμ-η , ἡ,
A.hair of the head, Il.22.406, etc.: less freq. in pl., “κὰδ δὲ κάρητος οὔλας ἧκε κόμας” Od.6.231; κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι (i.e. κόμαις Χαρίτων) Il.17.51; κόμην κείρειν, κείρεσθαι (v. κείρω）; κόμην τρέφειν to let the hair grow long, Hdt.1.82; “κ. φορεῖν” PGnom.188 (ii A.D.); “κόμη δι᾽ αὔρας ἀκτένιστος ᾁσσεται” S.OC1261; “καθεῖσαν εἰς ὤμους κόμας” E.Ba.695; κόμαι πρόσθετοι false hair, wig, X.Cyr.1.3.2, etc.; δοῦλος ὢν κόμην ἔχεις; Ar.Av.911; κόμης ἀνάπλεως unkempt, Plu.Cic.30.
2. of the beard, Arr.Epict.4.8.4.
3. gill or branchia of the cuttlefish, dub. in Arist.HA550b18: pl., arms or suckers, Max.Tyr. 4.5.
II. metaph., foliage of trees, Od.23.195, Cratin.296, etc.; “δόνακος” App.BC4.28; of herbs, Dsc.4.164.7, Gal.6.268; of corn, “ληΐου κ.” Babr.88.3; “λειμώνων κόμαι” IG14.1389ii 11; esp. = τραγοπώγων, Thphr.HP7.7.1, Dsc.2.143.
III. luminous tail of a comet, Arist.Mete.343a1, 346a15.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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