pulvinate

American  

[puhl-vuh-neyt] / ˈpʌl vəˌneɪt /

Also pulvinated

adjective

1. having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.

2. having a pulvinus.

3. Architecture. Also (of a frieze or the like) having a convex surface from top to bottom.

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pulvinate British  

/ ˈpʌlvɪˌneɪt /

adjective

1. architect (of a frieze) curved convexly; having a swelling

2. botany

   1. shaped like a cushion

   2. (of a leafstalk) having a pulvinus

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Other Word Forms

• pulvinately adverb
• unpulvinate adjective
• unpulvinated adjective

Etymology

Origin of pulvinate

1815–25; < Latin pulvīnātus cushioned, equivalent to pulvīn ( us ) cushion + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Reticularia atra, A. & S. �thalium pulvinate, variable in form and size, covered with a thin, fragile, blackish, cortical layer.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

In the more complex phase the sporangia are heaped together in a pulvinate mass in which the peridia appear as boundaries of minute cells.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

The pilei are pulvinate, narrow, zoned, often laterally confluent; ochraceous-white, tomentose, then smooth, laccate.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The pileus is somewhat coriaceous, firm, pulvinate, villous.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

P. pulvinate, rather wavy, glabrous, whitish, disc tinged flesh-colour; g. decur. crowded, white; s. very short, solid, hard.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George