strigose
Americanadjective
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Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
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Zoology. marked with fine, closely set ridges, grooves, or points.
adjective
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botany bearing stiff hairs or bristles
strigose leaves
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zoology marked with fine closely set grooves or ridges
Etymology
Origin of strigose
1785–95; < Latin strig ( a ) furrow, row of bristles (akin to stria stria ) + -ose 1
Example Sentences
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Simple; club cylindrical, elongated, smooth; whitish, more or less tinged with pink above; one to two-inches high, base minutely strigose, springing from a compressed brownish sclerotium.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
P. 1-2 cm. subpulverulent, exp. dull brown or grey, radially wrinkled; g. adnate; s. 4-6 cm. tawny, minutely velvety, base strigose; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
The stem is in most cases curved, attenuated toward the cap, smooth, hollow, rather firm, quite hirsute or strigose at the base.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
The pileus is thin, adnate behind, somewhat extended, more or less fan-shaped or kidney-shaped, simple, often much lobed, narrowed behind to the point of attachment; whitish, downy, then strigose.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
P. 3-9 cm. long, hard, zoned, bay, strigose, rough; g. branched, anastomosing, yellowish; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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