Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of papillæ; papilliferous; popular; pimply; warty: used loosely of many studded or bossed surfaces scarcely coming within the technical definition of papillate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with, or bearing, papillæ; resembling papillæ; papillate; papillar; papillary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Bearing, covered with or resembling
papillae ;papillary ,papillate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or resembling papilla
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Examples
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The blossom is normal as to the proper perianth, except that the labellum is unusually papillose, bearded almost to the base.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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