echinulate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of echinulate
Example Sentences
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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
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 Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
The spores are more or less globose, and rough or echinulate, at least in many species.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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 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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
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