Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a white, powdery covering or bloom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with a bloom or powder so as to appear as if frosted: said of some plant-surfaces dusted with a fine granular secretion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having a very fine whitish
powder on a surface.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The stem is fleshy to fibrous, the same color as the pileus, floccose scaly more or less up to the veil, smooth or white pruinose above the veil, straight or curved, somewhat striate below.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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In one specimen, some of the disks are partly or wholly pruinose, but the plant seemed nearer to this than to Bacidia suffusa.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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Stem 2 to 4 inches long, ¾ to ½ inch thick, swollen in the middle (ventricose), covered with a bloom (pruinose), stuffed and then hollow, tapering toward the apex, colored like the cap.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Hoary: covered with a fine, white, silvery pubescence: pruinose q.v. Holometabolous: having a complete transformation; with egg, larval, pupal and adult stages distinctly separated.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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The cuticle is sometimes covered with fibres, or with a bloom upon it (pruinose).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Thallus usually verrucose, areolate or subareolate, tending toward squamulose conditions, better developed than in other members of the family, scarcely ever showing granulate conditions, and never disappearing entirely; apothecia also larger than in the other genera, adnate to immersed, usually black, but rarely white-pruinose; hypothecium usually dark brown; hymenium pale to light brown; spores
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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Apothecia usually brown with a striate, usually pruinose margin 3.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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Apothecia usually black Of dark brown, without striate and pruinose margin 4.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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Thallus light colored, usually thin and smooth, rarely disappearing; apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.2 to 1 mm. in diameter, adnate scattered or crowded, flat or slightly convex, the disk pruinose, and the exciple persistent; hypothecium lighter or darker brown; hymenium usually pale; paraphyses coherent and becoming indistinct; asci cylindrico-clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 3 to 5 mic. long and 1 to
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894
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Spring-shoots conspicuously pruinose, uninodal or not infrequently multinodal.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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