explanate

American  

[eks-pluh-neyt, eks-pley-neyt] / ˈɛks pləˌneɪt, ɛksˈpleɪ neɪt /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. flattened; spread out.

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Etymology

Origin of explanate

1840–50; < Latin explānātus, past participle of explānāre to explain; -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The pileus is white, corky, horizontal, explanate, reniform, subsessile, azonate, finely pubescent, becoming smooth.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The pileus is explanate, white, fibrillose, dry, striate, center slightly depressed when mature.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The plant is small, waxy-pliant, somewhat coriaceous, cup-shaped, then explanate, confluent, marginate, externally white-tomentose.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Easily known by its long, tubular sporangia packed with rusty spores and destitute of any trace of columella or capillitium, the hypothallus explanate, rather thick, but not columnar.

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)

It finishes its growth in the fall when it has become explanate and horizontal, depressed above and with a thin margin.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha