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

Aethalium very large, pulvinate, orbicular, elongated, or quite irregular, extremely friable, the surface tawny or ferruginous to ochraceous and whitish.

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

Patouillard claims that Hypoxylon melanaspis has same spores and structure, and is the pulvinate form of Camillea Leprieurii.

From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by Lloyd, C. G.

Lycogala flavofuscum, Ehr. �thalia large, subglobose or somewhat pulvinate, solitary or gregarious, the surface at first silvery-shining, becoming yellow-brown, minutely areolate, irregularly dehiscent.

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

Fr. �thalium pulvinate, roundish, more or less irregular, the surface covered by a thin, silvery, shining, common cortex, which at the base is confluent with the hypothallus.

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

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