strigose

American  

[strahy-gohs] / ˈstraɪ goʊs /

adjective

1. Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.

2. Zoology. marked with fine, closely set ridges, grooves, or points.

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strigose British  

/ ˈstraɪɡəʊs /

adjective

1. botany bearing stiff hairs or bristles

   strigose leaves

2. zoology marked with fine closely set grooves or ridges

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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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strigose

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

P. convex, umbil. glabrous, not striate, rivuloso-rugulose when adult, fuscous; g. broad, pallid; s. even, base strigose, rooting.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 3-9 cm. long, hard, zoned, bay, strigose, rough; g. branched, anastomosing, yellowish; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

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 George Massee