corticate
/ˈkɔːtɪkeɪt
/adjective Botany
Having a cortex, bark, or rind.Bony erosion occurs in chronic cases and tends to be periarticular, well corticated and have a thin overhanging edge....
- In the oblique foot view in image 49, it appears more corticated than the original lateral view.
- The main axis is polysiphonous and corticate with simple monosiphonous lateral branches arranged spirally around the main axes.
Derivatives
cortication
- Care should be taken to check for cortication.
- This is due to a special pattern of cortication found in Ceramium and related genera.
- On casual observation may not obviously be a Polysiphonia species due to cortication masking the siphons from view.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Latin corticatus, from cortex, cortic- 'bark'.