Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, turned round like a crook; bent to and fro; folded and waved or marked with wavy lines: applied to the peculiar and complicated flexuosities of the margin of the apothecium in the genus Umbilicaria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.
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- adjective botany Turned round like a
crook , or bent to and fro.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hymenium covering the entire free surface or confined to one portion; smooth, gyrose, folded or lobed; or hymenium lamellate, porous, reticulate or toothed forms which are gelatinous and provided with continuous basidia may be sought here.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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It is 2 -- 5 cm. in diameter, and is strongly folded, somewhat like the folds of a brain (gyrose).
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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It grows on the stem or on the top of the cap of the _Collybia_, and it is white, or yellowish, very much contorted (gyrose-plicate), nearly rounded, and
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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-- Types of colonies: a, Reticulate; b, gyrose; c, marmorated.] 3.
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