Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Botany Having stiff, straight, closely appressed hair.
- adjective Zoology Marked with fine, close-set grooves, ridges, or streaks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, rough with strigæ; beset with sharp-pointed and appressed straight and stiff hairs or bristles: as, a strigose leaf or stem.
- In entomology, streaked, or finely fluted; having fine, close parallel ridges or points, like the surface of a file. Also
strigate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having fine
grooves ,ridges , orstreaks - adjective botany Having stiff
hairs , pressed together
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin strigōsus, from striga, bristle, from Latin, windrow, furrow; see streig- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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The stem is slender, and the rim of the cup is beset with long, strigose hairs.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The = pileus = is tough, reddish or reddish brown or leather color, hairy or sometimes strigose, the margin incurved.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
biocon commented on the word strigose
In addition, strigose means meager; sapless (OED).
August 25, 2012