Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or consisting of minute scales.
- adjective Of or relating to a lichen having a thallus consisting of numerous squamules.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
squamulate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.
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- adjective botany, mycology Having small scales.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with tiny scales
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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+Cap+ a golden brown or bright cinnamon color, 1½ to 4 inches broad, umbonate, silky, shining, squamulose, with yellowish fibrils, and then smooth.
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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The = pileus = is thin, convex or later expanded, of a watery appearance, nearly smooth or scurfy or slightly squamulose.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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It is dry, on the center finely tomentose to minutely squamulose, sometimes the scales splitting up into concentric rows around the cap.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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= Stem = cylindrical, even, twisted somewhat, white, striate and minutely squamulose like the pileus, but with coarser scales, especially toward the base, solid, flesh white.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The pileus is expanded, umbonate, thin except at the umbo, minutely floccose squamulose, no pinkish tinge noted; the flesh is white, but on the umbo changing to flesh color where wounded.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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P. 6-10 cm. plane, margin striate, grey, yellow, brown, or white; g. pallid; s. 10-12 cm. narrowed upwards, minutely squamulose, volva large, margin free; sp.
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(squamulose), rough (scabrous), dotted, lacerated, or be marked with a network of veins (reticulated).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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(granular) or with minute scales (squamulose) shining like satin, or kid-like in its texture.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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(floccose squamulose), and covered with a yellow powder (pulverulent), sometimes with cracks (rimose).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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