echinulate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of echinulate
Example Sentences
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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 Massee, George
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 Atkinson, George Francis
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 Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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 Hard, Miron Elisha
P. white, tomentose; g. paler than type; sp. globose, echinulate, tinged red. depluens, Batsch.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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