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

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

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

Strī′gate, Strī′gose, having strig�: streaked; Strig′ilose, minutely strigose.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

P. 1.5-2 cm. exp. shining, disc fleshy, depressed, subpapillate, greyish brown, margin striate; g. broad, grey; s. 5-7 cm. glabrous, root long fibrillosely strigose; sp. ——. tesquorum, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Broadly effused, coriaceous, often imbricated and often laterally joined, pileus thin, zoned, finely strigose, the zones grayish-white and cinnamon-brown.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha