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umbonate

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[uhm-buh-nit, -neyt] / ˈʌm bə nɪt, -ˌneɪt /

adjective

  1. having an umbo or projecting boss.

  2. shaped like an umbo; having a rounded convex form.

    an umbonate fungus.


Other Word Forms

  • subumbonate adjective

Etymology

Origin of umbonate

1820–30; < Latin umbōn- (stem of umbō; umbo ) + -ate 1

Example Sentences

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Stems coarse, often climbing high; corolla-lobes mostly shorter than the deeply campanulate tube; scales copiously fringed; capsule globose, umbonate.—Wet shady places, Canada to Minn., south to Fla. and Tex.

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P. 2-3 cm. soon plane, umbonate, silky, ruddy, becoming pale; g. crowded, rosy then brown; s. 3-4 cm. thickened downwards, white, ring persistent; sp.

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Differs from C. atrata in umbonate pileus.

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P. thin, cuspidately umbonate, scaly; s. partly hollow, long, equal. var. verruculosa, Lasch.

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P. convex then plane, umbonate, fuscescent, hoary-rusty when dry; g. crowded, obscure rusty; s. filiform, silky fibrillose, pallid. abstrusa, Fr.

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