pulvinate

American  

[puhl-vuh-neyt] / ˈpʌl vəˌneɪt /

Also pulvinated

adjective

1. having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.

2. having a pulvinus.

3. Architecture. Also (of a frieze or the like) having a convex surface from top to bottom.

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pulvinate British  

/ ˈpʌlvɪˌneɪt /

adjective

1. architect (of a frieze) curved convexly; having a swelling

2. botany

   1. shaped like a cushion

   2. (of a leafstalk) having a pulvinus

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Other Word Forms

• pulvinately adverb
• unpulvinate adjective
• unpulvinated adjective

Etymology

Origin of pulvinate

1815–25; < Latin pulvīnātus cushioned, equivalent to pulvīn ( us ) cushion + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

In the more complex phase the sporangia are heaped together in a pulvinate mass in which the peridia appear as boundaries of minute cells.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Reticularia atra, A. & S. �thalium pulvinate, variable in form and size, covered with a thin, fragile, blackish, cortical layer.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Stipe variable in length, rigid, erect, black or sometimes rusty-brown, arising from a small hypothallus; the columella broad, hemispherical or pulvinate, black, the lower side connate with the wall of the sporangium.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

P. pulvinate, rather wavy, glabrous, whitish, disc tinged flesh-colour; g. decur. crowded, white; s. very short, solid, hard.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Patouillard claims that Hypoxylon melanaspis has same spores and structure, and is the pulvinate form of Camillea Leprieurii.

From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by Lloyd, C. G.