areolate
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The skin on the flanks of both sexes of buckleyi is weakly areolate; in the other species the flanks are smooth.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
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 Asa Gray
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 Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
The skin on the dorsum is smooth with scattered small tubercles and areolate on the anterior part of the flanks.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
As the stem elongates and the pileus enlarges and expands, the volva is torn into areolate patches.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
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