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...
- 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...
- Farinaceous. Microscopic features: Basidia 4 spored, pleurocystidia fusoid-ventricose, cheilocystidia 12 x 4 μm. Panaeolus cyanescens is a coprophilous (dung-inhabiting)...
- literally means "horned turban," and it is characterized by a hard, ventricose, spiny, imperforate s**** of which the length varies between 65 and 120 mm...
- annular zone, produced as terminal cells of long hair-like hyphae, narrowly ventricose–capitate to cylindric–capitate, often cylindrical to clavate and without...
- History Botanical series". Ventricosicarpa comes from the word "ventricose". Ventricose defines as swollen or inflated on one side. Peperomia ventricosicarpa...
- characterized by having small and thin basidiocarps, a sharp pileus margin, ventricose hymenial setae, and ellipsoid, yellowish and thick-walled basidiospores...
- 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...
- mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. The thin s**** is ventricose, thin. The spire is short. The body whorl and the aperture are very large...
- with many forms - ventricose-capitate or broadly globose, subclavate, subfusoid to sublageniform, sometimes subcylindric or ventricose, usually a short...