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adj. - Covered with filaments or threadlike features more or less evenly disposed.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Pileus, scaly or warted.campanulate. silky, cracked or fibrillose.umbonate. umbilicate. striate.
  • +Stem+ nearly equal, 2 to 3 inches long, 2 to 4 lines thick, firm, hollow, slightly fibrillose, whitish or yellowish above, reddish-brown below.
  • It is, both outside and inside, of a whitish violet color, often fibrillose above, with the cortina, and sometimes with the white veil, in the form of a zone at the middle.
  • The veil is only seen in the young stage, and then is very delicate and fibrillose.
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