pruinose

[ proo-uh-nohs ]

adjective

, Botany, Zoology.

1. covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.

pruinose

/ -ˌnəʊz; ˈpruːɪˌnəʊs /

adjective

1. botany coated with a powdery or waxy bloom

Word History and Origins

Origin of pruinose¹

1820–30; < Latin pruīnōsus frosty, equivalent to pruīn ( a ) frost (akin to freeze ) + -ōsus -ose ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of pruinose¹

C19: from Latin pruīnōsus frost-covered, from pruīna hoarfrost

Example Sentences

Pruinose, Pruinate, frosted; covered with a powder like hoar-frost.

From Project Gutenberg

P. convexo-plane, hygr. striate to middle, membranaceous, rather olive or brownish honey-colour; g. dingy yellow then rusty; s. narrowed upwards, tough amber-brown, apex paler, pruinose.

From Project Gutenberg

P. hemispher. exp. obtuse, orbicular, naked, even or edge slightly pellucidly striate, viscid, whitish clay-colour; g. adnato-subdecur. clay-colour then fuscous and clouded; s. pallid, dry, straight or wavy, flocculose, pruinose above the distant, dry ring; sp. 12-15 � 7-9.

From Project Gutenberg

P. 1-5 cm. exp. umb. often cracked at margin, yellowish or white; g. soon free, distant; s. 2-3 cm. white, pellucid, apex pruinose; sp. 6-8 � 3-4.

From Project Gutenberg

P. striate, grey, umbo darker; g. greyish white; s. white, pruinose, base brownish, strigosely rooting; sp. globose, aculeate. vitilis, Fr.

From Project Gutenberg