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lirula

lirula noun: a fungus of the genus Lirula, known to cause foliage diseases in conifers.

lirula: a fungus of the genus Lirula, known to cause foliage diseases in conifers
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Noun

lirula (plural lirulas or lirulae)

  1. A fungus of the genus Lirula, known to cause foliage diseases in conifers.
  2. A fine raised line on a mollusk shell.
    • 314. Seila assimilata C. B. Adams.
      Plate IV, Fig. 8
      Cerithiopsis assimilata C. B. Ad., […] Shell small, thin, turreted; nuclear whorls sinistral; whorls ten, ornamented with three prominent, sharp, equal, equidistant, raised spiral lines; interspaces between ridges crossed by numerous fine lirulas...1903, Ralph Arnold, The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California, page 290
  3. A tooth in the opercula of some bryozoans.

Forms of lirula

plurallirulas
plurallirulae

Origin of lirula

From Latin lirula, from lira (“ridge of soil between furrows”) + -ulus (“diminutive suffix”).

Questions about lirula

What does lirula mean?
Lirula means a fungus of the genus Lirula, known to cause foliage diseases in conifers.
What part of speech is lirula?
Lirula is a noun.
What is the plural of lirula?
The plural of lirula is lirulas.

Words near lirula in the dictionary

  1. lirt
  2. lirted
  3. lirting
  4. lirts
  5. Liruk
  6. lirula
  7. lirulae
  8. lirulas
  9. lirulæ
  10. lis
  11. lis pendens

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