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umbonate
[ uhm-buh-nit, -neyt ]
adjective
- having an umbo or projecting boss.
- shaped like an umbo; having a rounded convex form:
an umbonate fungus.
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- sub·umbo·nate adjective
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Example Sentences
The pileus is thin, strongly umbonate, adorned with brown spot-like scales.
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The umbonate pileus and the nearly free, broad, gray gills will distinguish it.
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Recognised by very thin, acutely umbonate p.; owing to absence of description of milk, position uncertain.
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The pileus is convex to expanded, sometimes broadly umbonate in age, and usually with radiating wrinkles extending irregularly.
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The pileus is often umbonate or gibbous, and the center is often darker than the margin.
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