echinulate
Americanadjective
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Origin of echinulate
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The spores are in many instances beautifully echinulate, sometimes globose, at others elongated, and produced in such numbers as to lead to the belief that their development is successive on the spicules.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
The spores, as usual when clustered, are conspicuously echinulate on the outer side.
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
P. 4-7 cm. exp. umb. plicato-rugulose, pruinosely velvety, sooty umber; g. adnate, snow-white then tinged ochre; s. 6-12 cm. colour of p., apex constricted and plicate; milk white; sp. echinulate, 9-10.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The spores are yellowish in mass, faintly so under the microscope, globose, strongly echinulate, 6–10 µ.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
The sporidia in many cases are large, reticulated, echinulate or verrucose, and mostly somewhat globose.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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