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punctulate

American  
[puhngk-choo-leyt, -lit] / ˈpʌŋk tʃʊˌleɪt, -lɪt /
Also punctulated

adjective

  1. studded with minute points or dots.


Other Word Forms

  • punctulation noun

Etymology

Origin of punctulate

1840–50; < Latin pūnctul ( um ) (diminutive of pūnctum point; see -ule) + -ate 1

Example Sentences

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Page 301: with a minute mucro, sub-chartaceous, puncticulate, strongly Changed puncticulate to punctulate.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Slender and narrow-leaved, with leafy bracts and inconspicuous green sheaths; perigynium rounded on the angles, finely many-striate, often somewhat punctulate as in n. 58, to which the group forms a transition.—Sp.

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 Gray, Asa

P. 0.5-1 cm. convex, ochre, punctulate, edge scurfy; s. scurfy, ring append.; g. pallid, edge white.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Sporangia obovoid to oblong, sessile, closely crowded and irregular from mutual pressure; the wall thin, yellow, shining, punctulate or minutely granulose.

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