areolate
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The skin on the dorsum is weakly tuberculate and that on the anterior part of the flanks is areolate.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by Duellman, William E.
This species is well designated rugosum, and is recognizable at sight by its wrinkled, areolate surface.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
Three types of spores may be said to prevail in the Tuberacei: the smooth spored, the warted or spinulose, and the areolate.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
Skin of dorsal surfaces of head, body, and limbs faintly areolate; skin of chin, belly, and ventral surfaces of thighs granular, that of ventral surfaces of limbs, except thighs, areolate; thoracic fold absent.
From A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group by Duellman, William E.
Thallus thick, more or less channelled, dichotomous, innovating from the apex, with thick epidermis, closely areolate and porose-scabrous above, purple and more or less scaly beneath; gemmæ none.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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