pilose
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Origin of pilose
First recorded in 1745–55; from Latin pilōsus “shaggy”; see pile 3, -ose 1
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If you ignore that pilose caterpillar he inexplicably adheres to his chin, he's cuter than a basket full of stray koalas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2010
The pileus is fleshy, obsoletely umbonate, growing pale, variegated with saffron-red, adpressed, innate, pilose scales.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
The stem is slender, nearly orange color with a violet-brown apex, the whole minutely pilose.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
Thorax deep black, pilose; abdomen tawny along each side.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
P. 2-4 cm. convexo-plane, disc with erect pilose fascicles, edge fibrillose, mouse-grey; g. quite entire, whitish then smoky; s. 3-6 cm. slender, wavy, floccosely scaly, apex naked; sp. 8-9 � 4-5. cincinnata, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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