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Etymology
Origin of marginate
1600–10; < Latin marginātus, past participle of margināre to provide with borders or edges. See margin, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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P. 3-7 cm. exp. olive then dingy tan, flesh violet then whitish; g. violet-umber then sooty-olive; s. 5-7 cm. fibrillose, pallid, bulb napiform, marginate; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. 6-9 cm. compact, incurved then expanded, rather wavy, viscid then floccoso-squamulose or fibrillose, olive-bay then tawny yellow; g. broad; s. 6-8 cm. striate, bluish then yellowish, base marginate; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. white, covered with globose warts; g. free; s. equal, volva obtusely marginate; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. 3-7 cm. equal, exp. smoky-tawny then pale, spotted, edge thin becoming striate; g. crowded, purplish-olive; s. 6-7 cm. greenish or bluish, never yellow, narrowed upwards from marginate bulb; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. 4-7 cm. exp. silky-fibrillose, viscid, tawny orange, flesh becoming spongy and tan; g. emarginate, tawny; s. 5-6 cm. colour of p. fibrillose and woolly, bulb large, depr. marginate; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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