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esorediate

esorediate adjective: lacking soredia.

Adjective

esorediate (not comparable)

  1. Lacking soredia.
    • Cladonia coccifera (L.) Willd. Primary squamules persistent or disappearing; small, or becoming as large as 12 mm × 5 mm, irregularly crenately incised or lobed; yellowish, the base becoming orange to blackish brown; esorediate.1979, John Walter Thomson, Lichens of the Alaskan Arctic Slope, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 130
    • […]1-4 cm tall, not scyphose, simple at base, branching above, each branch longitudinally grooved and becoming split, with open axils, rarely with scattered squamules along the poderia, esorediate, greyish white.1995, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, page 64

Origin of esorediate

From e- + sorediate.

Questions about esorediate

What does esorediate mean?
Esorediate means lacking soredia.
What part of speech is esorediate?
Esorediate is an adjective.

Words near esorediate in the dictionary

  1. Esopic
  2. ESOPs
  3. Esopus
  4. Esopus Spitzenburg
  5. Esopus Spitzenburgs
  6. esorediate
  7. esorediose
  8. ESOs
  9. esoteric
  10. esoteric programming language
  11. esoteric programming languages

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