Adjective: fusoid-ventricose
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fusoid-ventricose |
| Superlative | most fusoid-ventricose |
Sample Sentences
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[…] sp. irregularly elliptic-oblong (angulato-ellipsoideis), 9-15 × 5-7 μ; c. fusoid-ventricose, 60-70 × 19-22 μ. [1904, George Massee, “A Monograph of the genus Inocybe, Karsten”, in Annals of Botany, volume 18, page 467:]
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The fusoid-ventricose type (fig. A13) apparently arises from the basidiole-type by elongation of the apical region of the cell to produce a ± narrow neck tapered to a more or less obtuse apex. [1983, Alexander Hanchett Smith, The Veiled Species of Hebeloma in the Western United States, page 7:]
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SPORES 7–9 × 4–5 μm, ellipsoid, smooth, with an apical germ pore, thin-walled, purplish brown in deposit; cheilocystidia clavate or fusoid-ventricose; annulus, and fruits in fall and winter at lower elevations. [2015, Dennis E. Desjardin, California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide:]
Adjectives inflected like fusoid-ventricose
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology