pruinose

American  

[proo-uh-nohs] / ˈpru əˌnoʊs /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

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

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pruinose British  

/ -ˌnəʊz, ˈpruːɪˌnəʊs /

adjective

1. botany coated with a powdery or waxy bloom

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Etymology

Origin of pruinose

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

Example Sentences

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pruinose

P. umb. cracked and torn, fibrillose, rather squamulose towards the edge, reddish violet, disc deep violet; g. broad, ochraceous; s. tall, fibrous, apex pruinose, violet downwards; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. spongy-compact, convex then plane, moist, obsoletely innately virgate, flesh-colour then pale, edge even, pruinose; crowded, narrow, quite entire, greyish then lurid; s. solid, subbulbous, reticulately fibrillose. personatum, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 2-3 cm. exp. and umbil. or wavy, striato-plicate, tawny bay or rufous, pruinose when dry; g. rufescent with a yellow tinge; s. 2-3 cm. hollow, bay, minutely velvety; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. thin, conico-campan. papillate, edge deflexed, sulcate, pruinose; g. crowded; s. bulbous, naked.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 3-5 cm. exp. often wavy, glabrous, margin invol. pale brown or greyish with brown spots; g. crowded, narrow, white then greyish; s. 2-3 cm. and nearly as thick, solid, white, pruinose; sp. subgl.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George