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. 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

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

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. 7-15 cm. fleshy, shell-shaped, ascending, blackish then grey or pallid; g. rather distant, anastomosing behind, pallid; s. widening into p. very short, downy or strigose at base; sp. 10-12 � 4-5.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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