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Definition of Pruinose

Pruinose
Pruinose Pru"i*nose`, a. [L. pruinosus, fr. pruina hoarfrost.] Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

Meaning of Pruinose from wikipedia

- (plural: pruinae), from the Latin word for ****frost. The adjectival form is pruinose /ˈpruːɪnoʊs, -z/. In insects, a "bloom" caused by wax particles on top...
- Acarospora thelococcoides is a pruinose (dusty whitish) verruculose (warty) crustose lichen that grows in patches up to 10 cm across that grows on soil...
- thick. The surface is white with a powdery (pruinose) coating. The stem ring is white and also pruinose. Spores: Ellipsoidal with a double wall and obvious...
- species can be distinguished from C. micaceus by a smooth, rather than pruinose (powdery) stipe, and by having more elliptical spores. Although not conclusively...
- 12 cm long by 2 to 3 mm thick, equal to slightly enlarged at the base, pruinose, colored like the cap, staining blue where bruised. Taste: Farinaceous...
- has a rosette-shaped, lobate thallus, and apothecia that are distinctly pruinose. It was formally described as a new species in 2002 by the lichenologists...
- species with the following features: elevated, white pruinose pycnidia, immersed to adnate white pruinose apothecia, and a weakly gelatinized hymenium. Inoderma...
- Young fruit bodies are pruinose—as if covered with a fine white powder....
- Stator pruininus, the pruinose bean weevil, is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Central America, North America, Oceania...
- lose their leaves lower down. The leaves are blue-green to blue grey, pruinose, succulent, erect, tapering and flattened laterally, with translucent lines...