umbonate

American  

[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.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• subumbonate
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of umbonate

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

Example Sentences

Differs from C. cerrusata in umbonate p. occulta, Cke.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Pileus thin, convex or nearly plain, sometimes almost umbonate, rough, with numerous granular scales, often radiately wrinkled, rusty-yellow or reddish-yellow, often growing paler with age.

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

The pileus is rather small, flesh-color or red, or reddish; thin, fleshy only at the disk; at first convex and often umbonate, then plane, depressed; cuticle thin, becoming pale, viscid in wet weather, margin tuberculate-striate.

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

Cap reddish or pinkish, broadly umbonate and clothed with adpressed scales; gills whitish, free, and close; stem nearly equal or slightly thickened at the base, with a well-developed persistent white or pinkish ring.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

The pileus is an inch to an inch and a quarter broad, oval or bell-shaped, sometimes slightly umbonate, smooth, somewhat shining, grayish-brown, sometimes becoming reddish-tinted, the margin often fringed with fragments of the veil.

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