punctate
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Origin of punctate
1750–60; < New Latin pūnctātus dotted, equivalent to Latin pūnct ( um ) point, dot + -ātus -ate 1
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P. 3-5 cm. soon plane, minutely punctate, tawny, margin striate; g. adnate, pallid; s. 3-4 cm. hollow, coloured like p.; milk whitish, watery; sp. 9-10. var. pauper, Karst.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Texture.—Succulent, fleshy; scarious, dry and chaffy; punctate, having translucent glands, so that the leaf appears, when held toward the light, as though full of holes; membranous, thin, soft, and rather translucent; thick, thin, etc.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Of these various operative methods those now most favored are erasion and excision, punctate and linear scarification methods are now rarely employed.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Capsule 10–20-seeded.—Leafy-stemmed perennials, glabrous except the ciliate petioles, not punctate, the leaves all opposite, but mostly in seeming whorls on the flowering branches.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
In the greatest number of cases in my own experience the exanthem is composed of ill-defined, roundish, punctate macules, without special grouping.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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