umbilicate
Americanadjective
-
having the form of an umbilicus or navel.
-
having an umbilicus.
adjective
-
having an umbilicus or navel
-
having a central depression
an umbilicate leaf
-
shaped like a navel, as some bacterial colonies
Etymology
Origin of umbilicate
1690–1700; < Latin umbilīcātus, equivalent to umbilīc ( us ) ( see umbilicus) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The nodding, lenticular, umbilicate sporangium, barely attached to the apiculate stipe, is sufficient to distinguish this elegant little species, recognized and quite aptly characterized by mycologists for more than one hundred years.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
The author says in his further description that the form affine is less definitely umbilicate, has white stems, etc.; allantoid, one would now say.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
Sporangia globose, sometimes a little depressed, with the base umbilicate; the wall steel-blue with tints of purple and violet, quite persistent, rupturing irregularly.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
P. 2-4 cm. exp. umbilicate, glabrous then rugulosely squamulose, dark brown then pale; g. slightly adnexed, broad; s. 5-7 cm. hollow, cylindrical, not rooting, grey; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Sporangium hemispherical, more or less depressed, the base profoundly umbilicate; the wall firm, rugulose, dark-colored and nearly opaque, with a mealy coat of stellate crystals of lime, rupturing irregularly.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
