papillose

American  

[pap-uh-lohs] / ˈpæp əˌloʊs /

adjective

1. full of papillae.

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Other Word Forms

• papillosity
  noun

Etymology

Origin of papillose

First recorded in 1745–55; papill(a) + -ose ¹

Example Sentences

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papillose

Style elongated awl-shaped, stigmatic and papillose down one side.

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

P. conical, exp. yellow or yellowish ochre, edge invol. slightly striate, disc papillose, viscid, usually with broad scattered scales; g. white, crowded; s. rather narrowed upwards, base bulbous, ring thin, white, volva membranous.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

In the Thelephorei, the lower surface of the cap presents neither gills, pores, nor spines, but instead the hymenium covers an uneven or slightly wrinkled surface, partially striate, sometimes obscurely papillose.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor

The hymenium is even, coriaceous, or waxy, costate, or papillose.

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

The stigma in the long-styled form is conspicuously more globose and much more papillose than in the short-styled, in which latter it is depressed on the summit; it is equally broad in the two forms.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin