fugacious
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The Reporter, on the other hand, calls it "a fugacious bit of whimsy that can only be judged minor Woody Allen".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2014
Petals 5, rarely 6, inserted on the calyx with the 7–20 stamens, fugacious.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
P. 3-5 cm. even bay brick-red when moist; g. emarginate, cinnamon with a fugacious tinge of flesh-colour violet; s. 4-5 cm. clavate, very fibrillose, one colour, becoming pale; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. persistently campan. sulcate up to disc, reddish-brown; g. nearly free, broad, blackish, subdeliquescent; s. slender, tall, rigid, hollow, whitish, ring median, very distinct, fugacious; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Hymenophore continuous with the stem, veil woven into a fugacious web, which adheres to the margin of the pileus.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
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