Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, transparent, or like water, when moist, and opaque when dry.
Wiktionary
- adj. Changing color as it dries out.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, and opaque when dry.
Examples
“It has a watery appearance (hygrophanous), somewhat fleshy, smooth, striate on the margin.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The = pileus = is convex, then the center is nearly or quite expanded, the margin at first inrolled and never fully expanded, hygrophanous, smooth”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“= Cap. = -- Whether dry, moist, watery in appearance (hygrophanous), slimy, viscid, glutinous; color when young, when old; whether with fine bloom, powder; kind of scales and arrangement, whether free from the cuticle and easily rubbed off.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“(hygrophanous) in appearance, not viscid, of an umber color, shining, faintly and closely striate on the margin.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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