dimidiate

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The gills are free, white at first, then from flesh-color to a reddish hue from the rosy-colored spores; some of the gills are dimidiate, somewhat crowded, broader in the middle.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Tu quoque, tu in summis, o dimidiate Menander, poneris, et merito, puri sermonis amator.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George

The stem is wanting, and the cap is shelving, dimidiate, reniform or suborbicular.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

The shape of the fungus is peculiar, a sort of semi-circular outline that may be called dimidiate.

From Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners by Dallas, Ellen M.

P. excentric, generally dimidiate, conchate, elliptical or rounded, mouse-grey then pale, viscid, squamulose; g. deeply decur. base anastomosing, white then tinged yellow; sp. 9-12 � 4-6.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George