pruinose

American  

[proo-uh-nohs] / ˈpru əˌnoʊs /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.

---

pruinose British  

/ ˈpruːɪˌnəʊs, -ˌnəʊz /

adjective

1. botany coated with a powdery or waxy bloom

---

Etymology

Origin of pruinose

1820–30; < Latin pruīnōsus frosty, equivalent to pruīn ( a ) frost (akin to freeze ) + -ōsus -ose ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

pruinose

P. 1.5-2 cm. campan. obtuse, blue, disc darker, scabrid; g. adnate, very broad; s. 2-3 cm. blackish blue, apex pruinose; sp. glob.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 2.5 cm. umb. even, umber then pale; g. soon greyish; s. 8-12 cm. solid, dingy, floccosely pruinose; sp. ——. pergamena, Cke.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 1-2 cm. conico-campan. fragile, slightly striate, viscid at the apex, creamy yellow; g. free, ventricose, becoming ochre; s. slender, elongated, pruinose at the apex, white; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. striate, grey, umbo darker; g. greyish white; s. white, pruinose, base brownish, strigosely rooting; sp. globose, aculeate. vitilis, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. apiculate, striato-sulcate, glabrous; g. arcuate, distant; s. filiform, pellucid, pruinose, base downy, rooting; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee