- (plural: pruinae), from the
Latin word for ****frost. The
adjectival form is
pruinose /ˈpruːɪnoʊs, -z/. A
cicada displaying ventral pruinescence Mature male...
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Acarospora thelococcoides is a
pruinose (dusty whitish)
verruculose (warty)
crustose lichen that
grows in
patches up to 10 cm
across that
grows on soil...
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Young fruit bodies are
pruinose—as if
covered with a fine
white powder....
- 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...
- to 8 cm by 1 to 3 mm, fragile, hollow,
beige to
light brown, fibrous,
pruinose, and
slightly striate. Taste: A
slightly unpleasant nutty fungal taste...
- 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...
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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...
- as new to
science in 2011. It is
characterized by its grey-black, white-
pruinose apothecia and
aeruginous hypothecium. This
lichen usually grows on the...
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deserts of
North America. The
surface appears as if
covered in a
light dust (
pruinose). The
squamules are
peltate (like
shields attached from the
lower surface)...
- lose
their leaves lower down. The
leaves are blue-green to blue grey,
pruinose, succulent, erect,
tapering and
flattened laterally, with
translucent lines...
