sinuate
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Inserted period after "g" on page 168: "g. slightly sinuate."
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Gills typically free, often remote, not sinuate or decurrent.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
The gills are sinuate, decurrent, broad, torn, transversely striate, whitish, or with white edges, irregularly toothed.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The gills are adnexed, crowded, narrow, white, then grayish, somewhat sinuate with a slight decurrent tooth.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
P. 4-7 cm. thin, plane then depr. margin sinuate or lobed, hygr. hyaline, whitish; g. adnate, closely crowded, white; s. 2-3 cm. firm, compr. downy; sp. ——. lignatilis, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Dorsal fin sinuated, narrowed in the middle and broadest behind.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
In Tuberacei, all the species are subterranean, and the hymenium is mostly sinuated.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Outer lip prominent, sinuated above, smooth within; inner lip polished, white.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
In the first, fourth, and eighth class the leaf differs from the rest; the fourth is more sinuated; the eighth has a large broad leaf not at all sinuated.
From A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship by William Bligh
Correlated with this peculiarity the maxilla usually has the tomia sinuated, and is generally concave, and smaller and narrower than the mandible, which is also concave to receive the palatal knob.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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