umbonate

[ uhm-buh-nit, -neyt ]

adjective

1. having an umbo or projecting boss.
2. shaped like an umbo; having a rounded convex form:

   an umbonate fungus.

Other Words From

• sub·umbo·nate adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of umbonate¹

1820–30; < Latin umbōn- (stem of umbō; umbo ) + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Stems coarse, often climbing high; corolla-lobes mostly shorter than the deeply campanulate tube; scales copiously fringed; capsule globose, umbonate.—Wet shady places, Canada to Minn., south to Fla. and Tex.

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P. 2-3 cm. soon plane, umbonate, silky, ruddy, becoming pale; g. crowded, rosy then brown; s. 3-4 cm. thickened downwards, white, ring persistent; sp.

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Differs from C. atrata in umbonate pileus.

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P. thin, cuspidately umbonate, scaly; s. partly hollow, long, equal. var. verruculosa, Lasch.

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P. convex then plane, umbonate, fuscescent, hoary-rusty when dry; g. crowded, obscure rusty; s. filiform, silky fibrillose, pallid. abstrusa, Fr.

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