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papillose

[ pap-uh-lohs ]

adjective

  1. full of papillae.


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Other Words From

  • pap·il·los·i·ty [pap-, uh, -, los, -i-tee], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of papillose1

First recorded in 1745–55; papill(a) + -ose 1
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Example Sentences

The fruit consists of radiating, somewhat woody fibres, terminating in a tuberculated and slightly papillose surface.

Style elongated awl-shaped, stigmatic and papillose down one side.

Thallus orbicular, tender, laciniate and undulate or crisped, papillose-reticulate.

Papillose -us: pimply; a surface covered with raised dots or pimples.

The pileus is papillose, the papill elongated, and forming distinct tubes as the pileus expands.

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