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pertusate

pertusate adjective: pierced (at the apex); perforated.

Adjective

pertusate (not comparable)

  1. Pierced (at the apex); perforated.
    • We have not accepted the genus Trematosphaeria as distinct from Melanomma. The basing of a genus upon size and pertusate apex seems insufficient. The latter character is often a condition of age and consequent deciduousness of the neck or ostiolum.1921, Charles E. Fairman, The fungi of our common nuts and pits, page 102
    • The perithecia are not typical of the genus. They are nearly twice as long as wide at the base and although pertusate, are not circularly so. The asci are eight-spored, […]1925, New York State Museum bulletin, page 73

Origin of pertusate

See pertuse.

Questions about pertusate

What does pertusate mean?
Pertusate means pierced (at the apex); perforated.
What part of speech is pertusate?
Pertusate is an adjective.

Words near pertusate in the dictionary

  1. perturbments
  2. perturbs
  3. pertusariaceous
  4. pertusarialean
  5. pertusarialeans
  6. pertusate
  7. pertuse
  8. pertused
  9. pertusion
  10. pertusions
  11. pertussal

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