Tremellan.
/trɪˈmɛlə/ Botany.
A genus of amorphous hymenomycetous fungi consisting of tremulous gelatinous substance, typical of the N.O. Tremellaceæ or Tremellineæ, most species of which grow on decayed wood, but a few on the ground. Tremella auricula is known as Earth-jelly, T. albida as Fairy Bullet. T. mesenterica is conspicuous in dead hedges in winter from its orange tint.
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fairy butter1700
witches' butter1718
Tremella1760
witch butter1847
witches' meat1849
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. Table i Tremella, Cryptogamia, Algæ.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 901 [Tremella purpurea] Little red-knobb'd Tremella. Anglis.
1786 Thompson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 124 Any thing resembling tremella or that kind of green matter, or water moss, which forms upon the bottom and sides of the vessel.
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tremellaceous adj. /trɛməˈleɪʃəs/ Botany pertaining to the Tremellaceæ or Tremellineæ.
/trɛməˈleɪʃəs/ Botany pertaining to the Tremellaceæ or Tremellineæ.Categories »
treˈmelliform adj. Botany of the form of the thallus in Tremella (Webster, 1911).
treˈmellin n. [compare French trémelline (Littré)] Chemistry (see quot. 1868).
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tremellin1860
phallin1897
zearalenone1966
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Tremellin.
1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 878 Tr[emella] mesenterica was found by Brandes to contain, in the dry state,..5 pts. of a peculiar crystallisable resinous body, called tremellin.
ˈtremelline adj. Botany pertaining to the genus Tremella or N.O. Tremellineæ ( Funk's Stand. Dict., 1895).
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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Tremelline.
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tremeˈllineous adj. Botany = tremellaceous adj.
ˈtremelloid adj. Botany resembling Tremella in form or substance.
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peziziform1797
pezizoid1836
sphaeriaceous1857
sphaeriaform1857
polyporous1858
thelephoreous1860
tremelloid1860
hysteriform1870
tremellose1887
polyporoid1890
thelephoroid1891
tuberaceous1909
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Tremelloides,..applied to a lichen, the membranous, delicate, and almost transparent expansions of which resemble those of the Tremella: tremelloid.
1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 72 Anomalous as it may at first sight appear to include these tremelloid forms with the dust-like fungi.
1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 333 Calloria luteo-rubella... Somewhat tremelloid.
ˈtremellose adj. Botany shaking, like Tremella, tremulous.
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peziziform1797
pezizoid1836
sphaeriaceous1857
sphaeriaform1857
polyporous1858
thelephoreous1860
tremelloid1860
hysteriform1870
tremellose1887
polyporoid1890
thelephoroid1891
tuberaceous1909
1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 22 Leotia lubrica... Gregarious, somewhat cæspitose, tremellose.
1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 420 Tremellose, shaking like jelly, of a jelly-like consistence.
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