Fibrillose

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In botany: Furnished or clothed with fibrils.
  • Composed of small fibers.
  • Marked with fine lines, as if composed of fine fibrils; finely striate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Covered with hair-like appendages, as the undersurface of some lichens.
  • adjective. Composed of little strings or fibres.
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  • adjective. covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed
  • Word Usage
    "+Stem+ nearly equal, 2 to 3 inches long, 2 to 4 lines thick, firm, hollow, slightly fibrillose, whitish or yellowish above, reddish-brown below."
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