sinuate
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P. 3-5 cm. convex, obtuse, becoming plane, even, smooth, tawny then pale; g. sinuate, adnexed, broad; s. 3-4 cm. equal, smooth, yellowish, hollow; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 4-7 cm. campan. then exp. rufous orange umbo darkest, flesh reddish-ochre; g. adnate, sinuate, bright rusty-red; s. 6-9 cm. pale above, dark below, with darker concentric bands; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Gills sinuate, dark brown or blackish-purple; veil often hanging in fragments from edge of pileus.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Leaves, especially on young trees, often less deeply pinnatifid, sometimes barely sinuate.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Biennial; leaves decurrent, sinuate, spiny; heads solitary, drooping; flowers purple.—Fields near Harrisburg, Pa., Prof. Porter.
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
In the first, fourth, and eighth class the leaf differs from the rest; the fourth is more sinuated; the eighth has a large broad leaf not at all sinuated.
From A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship by William Bligh
In Tuberacei, all the species are subterranean, and the hymenium is mostly sinuated.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Correlated with this peculiarity the maxilla usually has the tomia sinuated, and is generally concave, and smaller and narrower than the mandible, which is also concave to receive the palatal knob.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
Shell nodulous; inner lip smooth, whitish; outer lip inflected, above sinuated, within striated, blackish purple; basal lobe not toothed.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
Fold upon fold—utterly, unspeakably arid—the flank of the main dune sinuated away towards the north-west.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
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