Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or resembling a knob or knoblike protuberance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a boss or umbo, as a shield or disk of any sort.
- In zoology: Formed into an umbo, a boss, or a knob; button-like; umbonal; umbonic.
- Having an umbo, as a shell; bearing umbones of this or that kind; umbonated: as, both valves strongly umbonate.
- In botany, bearing an umbo or boss in the center, as the pileus of many species of Agaricus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a conical or rounded projection or protuberance, like a boss.
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- adjective mycology, of a mushroom, etc. Having an
umbo
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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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+Cap+ brownish and turning to yellow, 1 to 3 inches broad and slightly umbonate, flesh whitish.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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+Cap+ whitish-violet, 2 to 3 inches broad, fleshy, convex, broadly umbonate or gibbous, dry, beautifully silky and becoming even; flesh juicy, a bluish-white color.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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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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The disc in some specimens was slightly raised in the middle, almost umbonate.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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+Cap+ a pale red color, 2 to 3 inches broad, convex when young, then slightly raised in the middle, umbonate, afterward the margin is elevated and the cap becomes funnel-shaped and the margin wavy.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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The = pileus = is convex, then expanded, the margin more or less inrolled, then incurved, prominently umbonate, very viscid when moist, the ground color a saffron yellow or in the center burnt umber to wood brown.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The = pileus = is conic in some plants, to convex and umbonate, thin, minutely scaly with blackish hairy scales, dull heliotrope purple, darker on the umbo.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The entire plant is bay brown, becoming ochraceous in color, and the margin of the cap in age is striate, first bell-shaped, then convex and somewhat umbonate.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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_Omphalia_ the pileus is umbilicate in such species, while in _Mycena_ it is blunt or umbonate.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
ruzuzu commented on the word umbonate
"Having a conical or rounded projection or protuberance, like a boss."
-- from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
January 27, 2016
madmouth commented on the word umbonate
don't eat with your umbos out!
January 28, 2016
madmouth commented on the word umbonate
also, is anyone beyond fascinated at the prose stylings of princess_fuckbarf, the only non-bot Twitterer using this word??
January 28, 2016
bilby commented on the word umbonate
That's a pretty entertaining account. Quality fuckbarf.
January 28, 2016