Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pruinose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Frosty; pruinose.
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- adjective
pruinose
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Toward the end of winter these animated galls begin to swell, and those containing males enter the state of the chrysalis, from which the males emerge at the beginning of the warm season and fecundate the gall-like females, which undergo neither chrysalis state nor any other change, but die, or we may call it dissolve into their offspring, for there scarcely remains anything of them, except a pruinous kind of down, after having given birth to the young ones.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various
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