effigurate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin effiguratus; compare figurate (figuratus).

Adjective

effigurate (not comparable)

1. (botany, lichenology) Having a definite (lobed) shape; not effuse.

   Antonym: effuse

   • 1948, A. Grenfell Price, The winning of Australian Antarctica. Mawson's B.A.N.Z.A.R.E. voyages: 1929-31: based on the Mawson papers, page 105:

     Thallus thin, whitish to somewhat greyish, continuous, occasionally minutely rimulose, margin somewhat darkened and determinate but not clearly effigurate;

   • 1965, Nova Hedwigia, volumes 15-16, page 326:

     Thallus about 1 cm. in diameter, light gray irregular areoles 0:30,4 mm. in diameter on a black hypothallus, giving a deciussate appearance, marginal areoles slightly radially elongate and very narrowly black margined but not clearly effigurate;

Further reading

• “effigurate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “effigurate”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “effigurate”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Irwin M. Brodo, Keys to Lichens of North America (2016, →ISBN, page 372
• Thomas H. Nash, Lichen Biology (1996, →ISBN, page 40: "A thallus is called effigurate when the marginal lobes are prolonged and are radially arranged, as in many species of the genera Caloplaca, Dimelaena, Acarospora and Pleopsidium."