Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
punctulate .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
punctulate .
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Examples
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Spherical spores with punctulated surface -- 0.007 millimeter in diameter.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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-- Pale grey above, finely punctulated with black and grey; tail concolorous, with a black tip; under parts pale orange yellow; hands and feet yellow.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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-- Upper parts of the body, with base of tail yellowish-rufous, punctulated with yellow and black; the lower parts deep ruddy ferruginous or chestnut; feet, tail (which is bushy) and whiskers black.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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It is punctulated with yellowish on the head, sides of face and body and outside of limbs, and with rich rufous on the middle of the back.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Among the other remains of these beds I found a dense fragment of bone, apparently reptilian, and a curious dermal plate punctulated with thick-set depressions, bounded on one side by a smooth band, and altogether closely resembling some saddler's thimble that had been cut open and straightened.
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I succeeded in disinterring, during my short stay, an occipital plate of great beauty, fretted on its outer surface by numerous tubercles, confluent on its anterior part, and surrounded on its posterior portion, where they stand detached, by punctulated markings.
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In both Dipterus and Diplopterus the bright enamel of the scales was thickly punctulated by microscopic points, -- the exterior terminations of funnel-shaped openings, that communicated between the surface and the cells of the middle table of the scale; but the form of the scales themselves was different, -- that of the Dipterus being nearly circular, and that of the Diplopterus, save on the dorsal ridge, rhomboidal.
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-- Upper parts dark chestnut or a rich lustrous dark maroon chestnut, with a golden yellow mesial line in some; the hairs are black tipped, the dark portions of the back being finely but obscurely punctulated with dark orange; the shoulders and thighs are golden yellow, and the under-parts are orange fawn or orange red; so is also the margin of the parachute; the ears are large, semi-nude, sparsely clad with pale red hair externally, and bright red posteriorly, the base of the upper surface being clad with long hair; the sides of the face below the eyes are yellowish; there is a black zone round the eyes; the chin and the feet are blackish; the tail is orange red, tipped more or less broadly with black.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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