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)...
- Bulimulidae. Specimens vary in color patterns, but can be identified by their ventricose shape, broad bands of spots and an apex and peristome of bright rose coloration...
- 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)...
- History Botanical series". Ventricosicarpa comes from the word "ventricose". Ventricose defines as swollen or inflated on one side. Peperomia ventricosicarpa...
- annular zone, produced as terminal cells of long hair-like hyphae, narrowly ventricose–capitate to cylindric–capitate, often cylindrical to clavate and without...
- with many forms - ventricose-capitate or broadly globose, subclavate, subfusoid to sublageniform, sometimes subcylindric or ventricose, usually a short...
- thickened at the base in an emarginate bulb that is roughly club-shaped to ventricose. The stem surface is covered with silky fibrils, and is whitish-violet...
- Berkeley in 1856. A characteristic feature of the mushroom is the prominent ventricose (vein-like) pattern of the gills. "Marasmius cladophyllus Berk. 1869"...