rimose

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(Edible RUSSULA LEPIDA = neat or elegant The Elegant Russula Cap+ at first is a bright red, but becomes a dull reddish-pink, paler at the disc, 3 inches broad, dry, fleshy, convex; then expanded, scarcely depressed, obtuse and polished, afterward cracked (rimose), and with minute scales (squamulose).

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  1. adjective Full of chinks, cracks, or crevices.

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  • (Edible RUSSULA LEPIDA = neat or elegant The Elegant Russula Cap+ at first is a bright red, but becomes a dull reddish-pink, paler at the disc, 3 inches broad, dry, fleshy, convex; then expanded, scarcely depressed, obtuse and polished, afterward cracked (rimose), and with minute scales (squamulose). —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • (From its shape The Orange Brown Lactarius Cap+ 3 to 5 inches broad, reddish-orange color, becoming pale, compact, rigid, obtuse, with the margin bent inward, depressed, at length marked with lines like a river (rimose). —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • Thallus a thin, smooth or subtartareous, rarely rimose-areolate, ash-white to brown-gray, wide-spread and continuous or finally disappearing crust; apothecia minute to small, 0.2 to 0.5 mm. in diameter, adnate, black, from flat becoming convex and often irregular, the inconspicuous exciple then becoming covered; hypothecium pale to darker brown; hymenium pale or tinged brown; paraphyses distinct to coherent-indistinct; asci clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 8 to 11 mic. long and 2.7 to 4 mic. wide. —  Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
  • +Cap+ at first is a bright red, but becomes a dull reddish-pink, paler at the disc, 3 inches broad, dry, fleshy, convex; then expanded, scarcely depressed, obtuse and polished, afterward cracked (rimose), and with minute scales (squamulose). —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • +Cap+ 3 to 5 inches broad, reddish-orange color, becoming pale, compact, rigid, obtuse, with the margin bent inward, depressed, at length marked with lines like a river (rimose). —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
 

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  1. Latin rīmōsus, from rīma, fissure.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese Italian rimoso, from Latin rimosus, full of chinks, from rima, a chink, fissure: see rime.
 

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