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pulvinate
/ ˈʌɪˌԱɪ /
adjective
- architect (of a frieze) curved convexly; having a swelling
- botany
- shaped like a cushion
- (of a leafstalk) having a pulvinus
Other yvlog Forms
- ܱ··Բٱ· adverb
- ܲ·ܱ··Բٱ adjective
- ܲ·ܱ··Բ· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pulvinate1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of pulvinate1
Example Sentences
Pulvinate, cushioned, or shaped like a cushion.
P. pulvinate, rather wavy, glabrous, whitish, disc tinged flesh-colour; g. decur. crowded, white; s. very short, solid, hard.
P. pulvinate, cuticle thick, brown with greenish tinge, virgate with minute adpr. fibrils; g. thick, grey, with flat, transverse, more or less branched veins; s. solid, narrowed below, fibrillosely striate, with minute dark granules above, pale; 10-12 � 6. hordum, F. P. exp. subumb. grey, dry, glabrous then breaking up into squarrose scales; g. rather distant, becoming greyish; s. 6-8 cm. whitish, glabrous; sp. virgatum, Fr.
In the more complex phase the sporangia are heaped together in a pulvinate mass in which the peridia appear as boundaries of minute cells.
Cortex less calcareous porose, yellowish brown, fructification definite, pulvinate F. rufa 3.
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