Effigurate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Effigurate is an adjective meaning (botany, lichenology) Having a definite (lobed) shape; not effuse.
Meaning
(botany, lichenology) Having a definite (lobed) shape; not effuse.
Example Sentences
Thallus thin, whitish to somewhat greyish, continuous, occasionally minutely rimulose, margin somewhat darkened and determinate but not clearly effigurate;
Thallus about 1 cm. in diameter, light gray irregular areoles 0:30,4 mm. in diameter on a black hypothallus, giving a deciussate appearance, marginal areoles slightly radially elongate and very narrowly black margined but not clearly effigurate;
Antonyms for effigurate
Common opposites include effuse.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include disciform, licheniform, amplexicaul, foliaged, foliose, lanceolated.
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