Definition of Ventricose. Meaning of Ventricose. Synonyms of Ventricose

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Definition of Ventricose

Ventricose
Ventricose Ven"tri*cose`, Ventricous Ven"tri*cous, a. [NL. ventricosus, fr. L. venter belly.] (Nat. Hist.) Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla. Ventricose shell. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A spiral shell having the body whorls rounded or swollen in the middle. (b) A bivalve shell in which the valves are strongly convex.

Meaning of Ventricose from wikipedia

- Look up ventricose in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ventricose is an adjective describing the condition of a mushroom, gastropod or plant that it is...
- Farinaceous. Microscopic features: Basidia 4 spored, pleurocystidia fusoid-ventricose, cheilocystidia 12 x 4 µm. Panaeolus cyanescens is a coprophilous (dung-inhabiting)...
- The cystidia on the gill edge (cheilocystidia) measures 23–28 x 4–7 μm, ventricose to flash shaped, often capitate. The lamellar trama is made up of parallel...
- Milda ventricosa, common name the ventricose pyram, is a species of small to medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the (mostly minute)...
- violet-brown or brownish fuscous in age, with narrow pale edges, slightly ventricose, in three series, the middle reaching half way to the stipe, with an adnate...
- characterized by having small and thin basidiocarps, a sharp pileus margin, ventricose hymenial setae, and ellipsoid, yellowish and thick-walled basidiospores...
- on the face of a pore) that are thin-walled, roughly spindle-shaped to ventricose, and measure 30–45 by 7–10 µm; the "stuffed" feature of the hymenium is...
- History Botanical series". Ventricosicarpa came from the word "ventricose". Ventricose defines as swollen or inflated on one side. Peperomia ventricosicarpa...
- but not appealing. Spores are 9.5–17 by 4–6 μm, ellipsoid to somewhat ventricose (inflated on one side), smooth, and yellowish. The basidia (spore-bearing...
- are more ventricose than in Colombella atomella Duclos, 1840 (synonym of Zafra pumila (Dunker, 1860) ). Zafra melitoma differs in its ventricose whorls...