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Definition of Pruinose
1. a. Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.
Definition of Pruinose
1. Adjective. (botany) Having a very fine whitish powder on a surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pruinose
1. having a powdery covering [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pruinose
Literary usage of Pruinose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1904)
"Head black, grayish pruinose, antenna? yellow, the arista black, mystax and the
slender ... thorax reddish brown, light gray pruinose except three polished ..."
2. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"Clypeus elongate, rounded triangular with a slight impression on outer half, dark
brown, silvery pruinose. Eyes separated on irons, black. ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1899)
"<J 9 • — Front in the middle polished bronze green, very thinly brownish pruinose,
sparsely covered with short bristly hairs and with a pair of stout ..."
4. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"Apothecia black, rather large, or of a medium size, numerous, when young innate,
slightly pruinose, plane, surrounded by a white ..."
5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1919)
"Thorax and pleura almost entirely pruinose, with a yellowish tinge in places;
median geminate stripe gray, more or less well defined; inside of the humeri, ..."
6. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1919)
"Abdomen black, semi-shining; the posterior margins of segments two to six widely
pruinose; sides of first segment pruinose; posterior half of fifth segment ..."
7. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1900)
"... the upper part'of the occiput, except a triangular spot in the middle of its
upper edge, and the upper half of the front black, gray pruinose, ..."
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