gyrose

American  

[jahy-rohs] / ˈdʒaɪ roʊs /

adjective

1. marked with wavy lines.

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gyrose British  

/ ˈdʒaɪrəʊz /

adjective

1. botany marked with sinuous lines

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Etymology

Origin of gyrose

First recorded in 1830–40; gyr- + -ose ¹

Example Sentences

Sporangia laterally much compressed, flexuous, and gyrose, not everywhere grown together, but forming a dense reticulum; the walls a thin, pellucid membrane, with a dense layer of lemon-yellow granules of lime.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

It is whitish, becoming dingy-brown when dry; expanded, tough, undulated, even, more or less gyrose, pruinose.

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

Since F. muscorum Schw. has all along held its own and received due recognition, it is interesting to note the recovery of this gyrose form.

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)