Pruinose

Word PRUINOSE
Character 8
Hyphenation pru i nose
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Pruinose"

What do we mean by pruinose?

Having a white, powdery covering or bloom. adjective

Covered with a bloom or powder so as to appear as if frosted: said of some plant-surfaces dusted with a fine granular secretion.

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost. adjective

Having a very fine whitish powder on a surface. adjective

Having a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface.

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The word "pruinose" in example sentences

In one specimen, some of the disks are partly or wholly pruinose, but the plant seemed nearer to this than to Bacidia suffusa. ❋ Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker (1894)

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. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

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. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

The cuticle is sometimes covered with fibres, or with a bloom upon it (pruinose). ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

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. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Apothecia usually black Of dark brown, without striate and pruinose margin 4. ❋ Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker (1894)

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 ❋ Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker (1894)

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 ❋ Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker (1894)

Apothecia usually brown with a striate, usually pruinose margin 3. ❋ Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker (1894)

Spring-shoots conspicuously pruinose, uninodal or not infrequently multinodal. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)

Variations in dimensions of leaf or cone, the number of leaves in the fascicle, the presence of pruinose branchlets, etc., which have been thought to imply specific distinctions, are often the evidence of facile adaptability. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)

Spring-shoots multinodal, pruinose; branchlets pliant and tough. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)

Many authors consider the variety Jeffreyi Vasey to be a distinct species; but here, it seems to me, too much importance is attached to the pruinose branchlet, clearly a provision against transpiration and associated rather with a dry environment than with a species. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)

Characters considered by earlier authors to be invariable with species, such as the dimensions of leaf or cone, the number of leaves in the fascicle, the position of the resin-ducts, the presence of pruinose branchlets, etc., prove to be inconstant in some species. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)

Spring-shoots slender, pruinose; branchlets very pliant and tough, summer-shoots abundant. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)

Spring-shoots uninodal, slightly or not at all pruinose. ❋ George Russell Shaw (1892)

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