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punctate

[puhngk-teyt] / ˈpʌŋk teɪt /
ADJECTIVE
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STRONG




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Leaves.—Round-cordate; six to eighteen lines broad; finely crenate; often rusty beneath; usually punctate with dark dots.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Pod flat, oblong, often falcate, few–several-seeded.—Low perennial herbs, or woody at base, punctate with black glands, with bipinnate leaves, and naked racemes of yellow flowers opposite the leaves or terminal.

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 Asa Gray

P. 2-3 cm. convex, subumb. not striate, flocculose then squamulose, dark violet; g. greyish-white, edge rather paler; s. 3-5 cm. blue, not punctate; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Of these various operative methods those now most favored are erasion and excision, punctate and linear scarification methods are now rarely employed.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

All three shell specimens are edge-incised, and two have punctate designs.

From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by William C. Massey




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