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porose

ADJECTIVE
permeable
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
inpenetrable unpermeable


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Thallus large, forking, areolate, porose, with broad diffused midrib; gemmæ in a cup-shaped receptacle.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Thallus rigid, very indistinctly porose, the midrib broad, strong and distinct.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The cortex is porose but firm, orange at first, but becoming tawny with age, even in the herbarium.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Thallus thickened in the middle by a keeled costa, usually conspicuously porose, with dark purple scales beneath; gemmæ none.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Thallus dichotomous, copiously reticulate and porose, with a narrow costa; gemmæ none.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa