explanate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of explanate
1840–50; < Latin explānātus, past participle of explānāre to explain; -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Explanate, spread or flattened out.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
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The pileus is explanate, white, fibrillose, dry, striate, center slightly depressed when mature.
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The plant is small, waxy-pliant, somewhat coriaceous, cup-shaped, then explanate, confluent, marginate, externally white-tomentose.
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The pileus is white, corky, horizontal, explanate, reniform, subsessile, azonate, finely pubescent, becoming smooth.
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