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pruinose

[ proo-uh-nohs ]

adjective

, Botany, Zoology.
  1. covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.


pruinose

/ -ˌnəʊz; ˈpruːɪˌnəʊs /

adjective

  1. botany coated with a powdery or waxy bloom
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pruinose1

1820–30; < Latin pruīnōsus frosty, equivalent to pruīn ( a ) frost (akin to freeze ) + -ōsus -ose 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pruinose1

C19: from Latin pruīnōsus frost-covered, from pruīna hoarfrost
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Example Sentences

The stem is short, bluish below, tinged with brown above, somewhat pruinose.

The stem is long and slender, equal or slightly tapering upward, usually curved; pruinose or mealy.

Spring-shoots slender, pruinose; branchlets very pliant and tough, summer-shoots abundant.

Spring-shoots conspicuously pruinose, uninodal or not infrequently multinodal.

Pollen: a dusty or pruinose surface covering which is easily rubbed off; used mostly in Diptera.

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