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tuberculose

American  
[too-bur-kyuh-lohs, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjəˌloʊs, tjʊ- /

adjective

  1. tuberculate.


Etymology

Origin of tuberculose

1745–55; < New Latin tūberculōsus; see tubercle, -ose 1

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Differs from R. pectinata in ochre gills and mild taste, and from R. ravida in pectinate and tuberculose margin.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

The pileus is effused, fleshy, waxy, becoming hard, incrusting, variable, tuberculose or stalactitic, whitish, circumference similar; hymenium flocculose, pruinose, or evanescent.

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

The peridium is very thin, tuberculose, effused, delicate, olivaceous-brown; spores olive, echinulate or spiny.

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

P. 4-7 cm. convex then depr., tuberculose and striate with age, rosy, yellowish towards margin, densely granular everywhere; g. ochraceous orange; s. 3-5 cm. white; sp. 8-10.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

The pileus is expanded, tuberculose, obsoletely zoned, pulverulent, or smooth; cinnamon, becoming whitish; cuticle crustaceous, rigid, at length fragile, very soft within; loosely floccose, margin tumid; white, then cinnamon.

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

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