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pilose

[pahy-lohs] / ˈpaɪ loʊs /


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If you ignore that pilose caterpillar he inexplicably adheres to his chin, he's cuter than a basket full of stray koalas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2010

The stem is slender, nearly orange color with a violet-brown apex, the whole minutely pilose.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

P. 2-4 cm. convexo-plane, disc with erect pilose fascicles, edge fibrillose, mouse-grey; g. quite entire, whitish then smoky; s. 3-6 cm. slender, wavy, floccosely scaly, apex naked; sp. 8-9 � 4-5. cincinnata, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. exp. glabrous but with superficial deciduous pale scales, yellow; g. adnato-decur.; s. fasciculately pilose, adpressedly flocculose above distant ring. mutabilis, Schaeff.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Palpi rather long and slender, not pilose, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex; third joint elongate-conical, less than half the length of the second.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various




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