papillose

American  

[pap-uh-lohs] / ˈpæp əˌloʊs /

adjective

1. full of papillae.

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Other Word Forms

• papillosity noun

Etymology

Origin of papillose

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

Example Sentences

There seems to be no difference in the papillose condition of the two stigmas.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles

But until fructification is quite mature, the presence of the collaborating sporangia below is indicated, suggested, by the papillose upper surface.

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)

P. 6-8 cm. obtuse, viscid, brown, streaked with fibrils, disc papillose; g. broad, whitish; s. 3-5 cm. equal, rufescent, solid, flesh white; sp. 4-6 � 3-5. irregulare, Karst.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

He has shown that in certain papillose and bristle-like contrivances, plants possess such sense-organs; and moreover that these contrivances show a remarkable similarity to corresponding sense-organs in animals.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

Wisc. to Dak., and south to Tex. and Mex.—Glumes obscurely if at all papillose along the keel, the middle lobe of the flowering one 2-cleft at the tip.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa