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
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P. 2-3 cm. campan. obtuse, disc blackish or fuscous, whitish towards striate margin; g. free, crowded, glaucous; s. 6-10 cm. pallid, apex darker, base swollen, strigose; sp. ——. dissiliens, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The pileus is tough, reddish or reddish brown or leather color, hairy or sometimes strigose, the margin incurved.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
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 Miron Elisha Hard
P. 1-1.5 cm. conico-campan. pale grey, silky, with fasciculate fibrils, disc squamulose; g. adnate, grey; s. 2-3 cm. hollow, rather wavy, strigose and covered with brown down; sp. rough, 7-8. mammosa, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 3-6 cm. flaccid, more or less flabelliform, thin, strigose, zoned, pallid; g. broad, crowded, unequally branched, whitish; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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