pulvinate
/ˈpʌlvɪneɪt/adjective
1Chiefly Botany and Entomology. Resembling a cushion in shape, moderately convex.
2 Botany. Of a leaf or leaflet: having a pulvinus; = pulvinated.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Robert Kaye Greville (1794–1866), botanist. From classical Latin pulvīnātus cushion-shaped, in scientific Latin also moderately convex from pulvīnus cushion + -ātus. Compare French pulviné furnished with cushions or pillows, (of the surface of a fruit) having ridges, cushion-shaped, moderately convex.
- night-wandering
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- nightward
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- night watch
- night-watcher
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- nightwatchman
- night water
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- night work
- night worker
- nighty
- nighty-night
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- re-emission
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