umbilicate
IPA: ʌmbˈɪɫɪkʌt
adjective
- Having a navel
- (mycology, of a mushroom etc.) Having a small umbo in a central depression, or a depression in the center of the cap
- (botany) Supported by a central stalk.
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Examples of "umbilicate" in Sentences
- The = cap = is convex, then plane, and sometimes depressed at the center or umbilicate.
- Pileus, scaly or warted.campanulate. silky, cracked or fibrillose.umbonate. umbilicate. striate.
- In some of the species of _Omphalia_ the pileus is not umbilicate, but here the gills are plainly decurrent.
- The pileus is thin, umbilicate or with the center darker, the surface hairy or scaly, and the margin at first incurved.
- It is more erect, the branching more open, and the caps at the ends of the branches are more or less circular and umbilicate.
- +Cap+ yellow when moist, 1 to 2 inches broad, umbilicate, then funnel-shaped, wrinkled on the surface, at length wavy at margin.
- It is minutely velvety on the upper surface, reddish brown or cinnamon in color, expanded or umbilicate to nearly funnel-shaped.
- In the small species of _Mycena_ where the gills are slightly decurrent, the pileus is not umbilicate as it is in corresponding species of _Omphalia_.
- = Hygrophorus psittacinus = Fr., is a remarkably pretty plant, the cap being from bell-shaped to expanded, umbilicate, striate, and covered with a greenish slime.
- The = pileus = is convex, umbilicate, then depressed and more or less funnel-shaped in age, white, in the center roughened with fibrous scales as the plant ages, the scales becoming quite stout in old plants.
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