Crossword-Solution: PRUINOSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pruinose | a. | Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Covered with whitish dust, as a plant. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
WOPLLA
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PRUINOSE (5)
The =stem= is fleshy to fibrous, the same color as the pileus, floccose scaly more or less up to the veil, smooth or white pruinose above the veil, straight or curved, somewhat striate below.
Variations in dimensions of leaf or cone, the number of leaves in the fascicle, the presence of pruinose branchlets, etc., which have been thought to imply specific distinctions, are often the evidence of facile adaptability.
Characters considered by earlier authors to be invariable with species, such as the dimensions of leaf or cone, the number of leaves in the fascicle, the position of the resin-ducts, the presence of pruinose branchlets, etc., prove to be inconstant in some species.
Many authors consider the variety Jeffreyi Vasey to be a distinct species; but here, it seems to me, too much importance is attached to the pruinose branchlet, clearly a provision against transpiration and associated rather with a dry environment than with a species.
The stem is two to three inches or more long; stuffed or hollow, tapering upward slightly from a swollen base; below the ring rough or silky, pruinose above, ring large.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1942).