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Definition of Rivulose
1. having narrow, winding lines [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rivulose
Literary usage of Rivulose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George. Massee (1893)
"... -rivulose; gills emarginate, much narrower than the thickness of the flesh of
the pileus, slightly crowded, whitish then tan-colour, crisped owing to ..."
2. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by Worthington George Smith (1908)
"(from the rivulose cracks on the pileus) a b. P. whitish, very pale or brownish
flesh-colour or brownish-ochre with no shade of green, appearing at first as ..."
3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1905)
"rivulose, marked with fine wavy channels or grooves. Rotund, rounded. Rugose,
wrinkled. Rugulose, minutely wrinkled. Satiny, glossy like satin. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1915)
"... sometimes rivulose, 5—15 cm. broad, margin involute at first, then spreading;
gills white, then tinted with incarnate, finally yellow, often forking, ..."
5. The Intellectual Observer (1868)
"... deeply rivulose with little sinuous narrow depressions, fleshy; flesh white;
stem three inches high, two lines thick in the centre, bulbous below, ..."
6. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique: A Laboratory Guide for Medical by John William Henry Eyre (1913)
"... irregular stripes, or traversed by vein-like markings, as in marble (Fig.
146, c). rivulose: Marked by lines like the rivers of a map. ..."
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