punctate
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- punctation noun
- unpunctate adjective
- unpunctated adjective
Etymology
Origin of punctate
1750–60; < New Latin pūnctātus dotted, equivalent to Latin pūnct ( um ) point, dot + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Pod flat, oblong, often falcate, few–several-seeded.—Low perennial herbs, or woody at base, punctate with black glands, with bipinnate leaves, and naked racemes of yellow flowers opposite the leaves or terminal.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
P. 2-3 cm. thin, depr. subumb. rugose, punctate, wavy, dusky cinnamon, flesh grey then yellowish; g. adnate, pinkish rufous; s. 2-3 cm. stuffed, rufescent; milk watery, whitish; sp. 5-6.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
All three shell specimens are edge-incised, and two have punctate designs.
From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by Massey, William C.
Differs from L. lampropoda in black punctate s. solstitialis, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Achenes 10-ribbed; pappus of rather rigid bristles, not plumose.—Perennial herbs, fibrous-rooted, with broad entire leaves, obscurely or not at all punctate, and cymules of small heads in a thyrse or panicle.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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