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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/. A cicada displaying ventral pruinescence Mature male...
- 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...
- flattened abdomen, four wing patches and, in the male, the abdomen becomes pruinose blue. This insect is around 39–48 mm in length, with both the male and...
- species can be distinguished from C. micaceus by a smooth, rather than pruinose (powdery) stipe, and by having more elliptical spores. Although not conclusively...
- elder. It is resupinate, forming a very thin structure which is white, pruinose (flour-like dusting) or chalky in appearance. It is inedible. It also grows...
- Acarospora thelococcoides is a pruinose (dusty whitish) verruculose (warty) crustose lichen that grows in patches up to 10 cm across that grows on soil...
- 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...
- where it grows on Eocene limestone rocks. It has a creamy-white, slightly pruinose thallus that is 0.1–0.5 mm thick and a chalk-like medulla. There are no...
- Islands. It is characterized by its flaccid branches, blackened trunk, and pruinose cortex surface. Usnea subcomplecta was first described by Camille Truong...
- 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...