Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a central mark or depression resembling a navel.
- adj. Having a navel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To become umbilicate.
- Shaped like a navel; resembling a navel, as being round and depressed or concave, or as being focal or central, as some pit or depression; umbilicated; umbiliform.
- Having an umbilicus or umbilicated formation, as a shell or a feather, or marks of the sculpture of an insect; pitted, as a pustule.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having a navel
- adj. mycology Having a small umbo in a central depression, or a depression in the center of the cap
- adj. botany Supported by a central stalk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Depressed in the middle, like a navel, as a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus.
- adj. (Bot.) Supported by a stalk at the central point.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. depressed like a navel
Etymologies
- Latin umbilicatus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“+Cap+ yellow when moist, 1 to 2 inches broad, umbilicate, then funnel-shaped, wrinkled on the surface, at length wavy at margin.”
“Pileus, scaly or warted.campanulate. silky, cracked or fibrillose.umbonate. umbilicate. striate.”
“It is more erect, the branching more open, and the caps at the ends of the branches are more or less circular and umbilicate.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The = pileus = is convex, umbilicate, then depressed and more or less funnel-shaped in age, white, in the center roughened with fibrous scales as the plant ages, the scales becoming quite stout in old plants.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“In the small species of _Mycena_ where the gills are slightly decurrent, the pileus is not umbilicate as it is in corresponding species of _Omphalia_.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“In some of the species of _Omphalia_ the pileus is not umbilicate, but here the gills are plainly decurrent.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The pileus is thin, umbilicate or with the center darker, the surface hairy or scaly, and the margin at first incurved.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“= Hygrophorus psittacinus = Fr., is a remarkably pretty plant, the cap being from bell-shaped to expanded, umbilicate, striate, and covered with a greenish slime.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“It is minutely velvety on the upper surface, reddish brown or cinnamon in color, expanded or umbilicate to nearly funnel-shaped.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The = cap = is convex, then plane, and sometimes depressed at the center or umbilicate.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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