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appendiculate

American  
[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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This sometimes remains for a time on the margin of the cap when it is said to be appendiculate.

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

P. 3-5 cm. exp. fibrillosely silky, dingy yellow; g. adnate, pale yellow rusty olive; s. 4-5 cm. equal, variegated with rusty wart-like scales; veil forming a ring and appendiculate; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 2-3 cm. exp. umb. watery white, smooth, edge appendiculate; g. purplish umber, edge white; s. 4-5 cm. fistulose; sp. ——. pilulaeforme, Bull.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The large appendiculate cell seems, however, to yield to its consort a portion of the plasma it contains.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

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