Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having zones; belted, striped, or ringed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, marked with zones or concentric bands of color.
- In zoology, having zones of color or texture; belted, girdled, or ringed; zoned.
Wiktionary
- adj. biology Having or appearing to have multiple zones, such as of color or texture.
- adj. biology Having different colors, textures, or other patterns form a pattern of rings, bands, or stripes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Divided by parallel planes.
Examples
“Sooty stripe (Ramulispora sorghi), zonate leaf spot”
“It is remarkable for its peculiar odor, resembling, when fresh, that of an Ethiopian; for its tough, zonate pileus with a prominent white edge, and the stout irregular stem, resembling the stem of _Hydnum velutinum_.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“= Polyporus leucophæus = Mont., is said to differ from this species in being more strongly zonate, and in the crust being whitish instead of reddish brown.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
Lists
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Cool Shroomy Words
axenic, ascomycetes, shroud, zonate, mycelium, mycorrhiza, stroma, sclerotium, saprophyte, umbonate, psylocybin, lamellae and 3 more...
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