Definition of Rivulose

1. Adjective. Marked by thin, winding or crooked lines. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rivulose

1. having narrow, winding lines [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rivulose

rivetted
rivetter
rivetting
riviation
rivieras
riviere
rivieres
riving
rivlin
rivlins
rivo
rivos
rivose
rivulet
rivulets
rivulose (current term)
rivulus
rivus lacrimalis
rix-baron
rix-dollar
rix-dollars
rixation
rixatrix
rixdaler
rixdalers
rixdollar
riyal
riyal-omani
riyals
riyaz

Literary usage of Rivulose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George. Massee (1893)
"... -rivulose; gills emarginate, much narrower than the thickness of the flesh of the pileus, slightly crowded, whitish then tan-colour, crisped owing to ..."

2. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by Worthington George Smith (1908)
"(from the rivulose cracks on the pileus) a b. P. whitish, very pale or brownish flesh-colour or brownish-ochre with no shade of green, appearing at first as ..."

3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1905)
"rivulose, marked with fine wavy channels or grooves. Rotund, rounded. Rugose, wrinkled. Rugulose, minutely wrinkled. Satiny, glossy like satin. ..."

4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1915)
"... sometimes rivulose, 5—15 cm. broad, margin involute at first, then spreading; gills white, then tinted with incarnate, finally yellow, often forking, ..."

5. The Intellectual Observer (1868)
"... deeply rivulose with little sinuous narrow depressions, fleshy; flesh white; stem three inches high, two lines thick in the centre, bulbous below, ..."

6. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique: A Laboratory Guide for Medical by John William Henry Eyre (1913)
"... irregular stripes, or traversed by vein-like markings, as in marble (Fig. 146, c). rivulose: Marked by lines like the rivers of a map. ..."

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