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Definition of Lacunose
1. a. Furrowed or pitted; having shallow cavities or lacunæ; as, a lacunose leaf.
Definition of Lacunose
1. Adjective. Full of gaps or lacunae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lacunose
1. marked by shallow depressions [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacunose
Literary usage of Lacunose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1825)
"ly reddish, much compressed, more or less of an erect, obovate form, slightly
inflated, undulated, or even lacunose, and sometimes bifid, or inclining to be ..."
2. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... internally lacunose. GENUS 1. CLADONIA, (Hoffm.) After a careful examination
of several hundred specimens, from various localities, of the species ..."
3. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Leaves simple, membranous or thinly coriaceous, not lacunose, Leaves simple,
obovate or oblanceolate, coriaceous, not lacunose, entire, or with large ..."
4. A Synopsis of the Lichenes of New England, the Other Northern States, and by Edward Tuckerman (1848)
"Appears to me to differ from R. scopulorum in its softish, plane, often deeply
lacunose, and thin thallus, as well as in the apothecia. ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1890)
"... in young specimens, but in the adult, in which there are six septa, three of
these are complete, and the three earlier ones incomplete or lacunose. ..."
6. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1886)
"lacunose tissue of the vestibule. (S). The reticulate body of the sponge itself.
... lacunose system of the vestibule. (S). Portions of the real sponge ..."
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