echinulate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of echinulate
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The majority of these spores are globose in form, some of them extremely minute, variously coloured, often dark, nearly black, and either externally smooth or echinulate.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
The peridium is very thin, tuberculose, effused, delicate, olivaceous-brown; spores olive, echinulate or spiny.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The spores are more or less globose, and rough or echinulate, at least in many species.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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
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
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