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Definition of Pulvinate
1. a. Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze.
Definition of Pulvinate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulvinate
Literary usage of Pulvinate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by Worthington George Smith (1908)
"P. pulvinate, velvety, somewhat rugged behind, obsoletely zoned and ... P.
pulvinate, whitish, yellowish or brownish, sometimes zoned dark brown; ..."
2. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"Dioecious: plants small, irregularly pulvinate, pale green or yellowish above,
... Dioecious: plants of wide growth, loosely cespitose or pulvinate, ..."
3. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1900)
"From the first two it differs in the more tufted pulvinate habit, ... Densely
pulvinate-caespitose, about 2 cm. high; leaves numerous, crowded, ..."
4. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences by Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (1875)
"Pileus pulvinate, solid, and very firm, gray, slightly tomentose, ... Pileus
pulvinate, brownish tinged with red, tomentose, tolerably firm. ..."
5. Guide to the British Mycetozoa Exhibited in the Department of Botany by Arthur Lister (1903)
"... pulvinate, composed of elongate confluent sporangia ; sporangium-walls not
developed; capil- litium rising from the base in irregularly flattened and ..."
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