Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a central mark or depression resembling a navel.
- adjective Having a navel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become umbilicate.
- Shaped like a navel; resembling a navel, as being round and depressed or concave, or as being focal or central, as some pit or depression; umbilicated; umbiliform.
- Having an umbilicus or umbilicated formation, as a shell or a feather, or marks of the sculpture of an insect; pitted, as a pustule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus.
- adjective (Bot.) Supported by a stalk at the central point.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
navel - adjective mycology Having a small
umbo in a central depression, or a depression in the center of the cap - adjective botany Supported by a
central stalk .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective depressed like a navel
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pileus, scaly or warted.campanulate. silky, cracked or fibrillose.umbonate. umbilicate. striate.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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+Cap+ yellow when moist, 1 to 2 inches broad, umbilicate, then funnel-shaped, wrinkled on the surface, at length wavy at margin.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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It is minutely velvety on the upper surface, reddish brown or cinnamon in color, expanded or umbilicate to nearly funnel-shaped.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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In the small species of _Mycena_ where the gills are slightly decurrent, the pileus is not umbilicate as it is in corresponding species of _Omphalia_.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The = cap = is convex, then plane, and sometimes depressed at the center or umbilicate.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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= Hygrophorus psittacinus = Fr., is a remarkably pretty plant, the cap being from bell-shaped to expanded, umbilicate, striate, and covered with a greenish slime.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The = pileus = is convex, umbilicate, then depressed and more or less funnel-shaped in age, white, in the center roughened with fibrous scales as the plant ages, the scales becoming quite stout in old plants.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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In some of the species of _Omphalia_ the pileus is not umbilicate, but here the gills are plainly decurrent.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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It is more erect, the branching more open, and the caps at the ends of the branches are more or less circular and umbilicate.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The pileus is thin, umbilicate or with the center darker, the surface hairy or scaly, and the margin at first incurved.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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