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appendiculate

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[ap-uhn-dik-yuh-lit, -leyt] / ˌæp ənˈdɪk yə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.
  1. having appendages.

  2. forming an appendage or appendicle.


Etymology

Origin of appendiculate

1825–35; < Latin appendicul ( a ) appendicle + -ate 1

Example Sentences

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The pileus is about one inch in diameter, inclined to be globose, then hemispherical, slightly umbonate, center darker, with united raised ribs, sometimes sprinkled with opaque atoms; veil torn, appendiculate.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The stem is three to four inches long, solid, hard, bulbous at the base, fibrillose, white or whitish; veil apical, ring fugacious, appendiculate.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

P. conical then exp. obtuse, white at first, soon covered with large, adpressed brown or blackish, fibrillose scales, margin appendiculate at first; g. crowded; s. cylindrical, wavy, white. punctulatum, Kalchbr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. convex, umb. viscid, yellowish-tan, appendiculate; g. adnato-decur. flesh-colour; s. slender, wavy, whitish, with a fibrillose cinnamon veil, base bulbous, volva torn at free edge. acetabulosa, Sacc.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. yellowish-white, silky, with appendiculate white down at edge; g. adnate; s. fistulose, becoming compressed.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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