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granulose

American  
[gran-yuh-lohs] / ˈgræn jəˌloʊs /

adjective

  1. granular.


granulose British  
/ ˈɡrænjʊˌləʊs, -ˌləʊz /

adjective

  1. a less common word for granular

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of granulose

First recorded in 1850–55; granule + -ose 1

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Columella white, hemispheric or depressed and irregular, the surface granulose.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

Brucke gave the name erythrogranulose to a substance nearly related to granulose, but with a stronger affinity for iodine, and receiving from it not a blue but a red color.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

Shell oblong-ovate, and generally of a chestnut red, and the granulose ligament black; the colour of the younger specimens is more brilliant, and sometimes interspersed with yellow.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy

Sporangium ovoid; the calyculus very small, finely ribbed and granulose.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

W. Nageli maintains that granulose, or soluble starch, differs from amylodextrin in the former being precipitated by tannic acid and acetate of lead, while the latter is not.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

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