pruinose

[ proo-uh-nohs ]

adjective

, Botany, Zoology.

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

pruinose

/ -ˌnəʊz; ˈpruːɪˌnəʊs /

adjective

1. botany coated with a powdery or waxy bloom

Word History and Origins

Origin of pruinose¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of pruinose¹

C19: from Latin pruīnōsus frost-covered, from pruīna hoarfrost

Example Sentences

The stem is short, bluish below, tinged with brown above, somewhat pruinose.

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The stem is long and slender, equal or slightly tapering upward, usually curved; pruinose or mealy.

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Spring-shoots slender, pruinose; branchlets very pliant and tough, summer-shoots abundant.

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Spring-shoots conspicuously pruinose, uninodal or not infrequently multinodal.

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Pollen: a dusty or pruinose surface covering which is easily rubbed off; used mostly in Diptera.

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