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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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
P. exp. reddish brown, then tan colour, becoming lacunose, margin striate; g. adnexed, seceding, pallid then rufescent; s. 3-5 cm. villosely downy, lower portion coarsely strigose, yellowish; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. dry, convex, plane, umb. very minutely downy-squamulose, whitish then rufescent, edge striate, toothed; g. ventricose, pallid; s. fistulose, tough, scabrid-squamulose, tawny, strigose below. effugiens, Q. Very minute.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
M. gypsea differs in decurrent tooth of gills, and strigose base of stem.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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 Massee, George
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