papillose

American  

[pap-uh-lohs] / ˈpæp əˌloʊs /

adjective

1. full of papillae.

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Other Word Forms

• papillosity
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of papillose

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

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Example Sentences

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papillose

Annual, 6´–2° high; leaves 1–2-pinnately divided, the lobes oval to lanceolate or above linear; rays yellow with brown-purple base; achenes short, smooth or papillose, winged.—Kan. to La. and Tex.

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

Spores flattish, more or less convex-prismatic, papillose or smooth.

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. ovate then campan. at length exp. livid grey, disc rufescent, papillose, otherwise glabrous, 3-7 cm.; g. free; s. 7-10 cm. white, glabrous, hollow; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

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

There seems to be no difference in the papillose condition of the two stigmas.

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

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