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  

/ ˈpruːɪˌnəʊs, -ˌnəʊz /

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

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Example Sentences

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pruinose

P. 6-10 cm. rigid, depr. obtuse, dry, glabrous, golden tawny at length minutely broken up; g. decur. crowded, yellowish; s. 5-9 cm. solid, stout, coloured like p. pruinose; milk white; sp. 5-6.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. whitish, umbo bluish-green; g. narrow, white then fuscous; stem white pruinose; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. subumb. whitish, margin striate; g. nearly free, crowded, narrow; s. purplish-brown, pruinose, base with white down. archyropus, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. exp. then depr. glabrous, striate, pallid fuscous then pale and hoary, sublubricous; g. adnate, then adnato-decur. connected by veins, whitish; s. solid, pallid, apex pruinose.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Shining white, campan. obtuse, even, edge straight, adpressed to stem at first; g. free, very ventricose; s. solid, fibrous, glabrous, apex pruinose.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

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