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Definition of Punctate
1. covered with dots [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punctate
Literary usage of Punctate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1892)
"i space near each eye, front sparsely punctate, more coarsely on the cly- pros;
labrum pale. Thorax nearly twice as wide as long, slightly narrowed in front ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Petals as many, almost always oblique and convolute in th« bud, deciduous or
withering, usually glandular-punctate. Filaments mostly in 3 sets or bundles. ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Petals as many, almost always oblique and convolute in the bud, deciduous or
withering, usually glandular-punctate. Filaments mostly in 3 sets or bundles. ..."
4. A Manual of British Coleoptera, Or Beetles: Containing a Brief Description by James Francis Stephens (1839)
"Ovate, shining : head and thorax black, anterior and lateral margins of the latter
testaceous ; elytra deep pitchy-testaceous, faintly punctate-striate, ..."
5. Diagnostics of the Fundus Oculi by Edward Leroy Oatman (1920)
"Hirschberg has separated uncomplicated cases into two classes which may be accepted
as typical of saccharine diabetes. These are: (1) Central punctate ..."
6. Ophthalmology and Ophthalmoscopy: For Practitioners and Students of Medicine by Hermann Schmidt-Rimpler, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1889)
"punctate Keratitis. punctate keratitis exhibits white punctate ... In punctate
keratitis, on the other hand, the infiltration is situated in the corneal ..."
7. ... A Revision of the Tenebrionid Subfamily Conintina by Thomas Lincoln Casey (1908)
"6 — Form, lustre, coloration and pubescence nearly as in montana but narrower;
head coarsely, deeply, somewhat closely punctate, the sinus rather deep and ..."
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