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What does strigose mean?

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Adjective
  1. (zoology) Having fine grooves, ridges, or streaks.
  2. (botany) Having stiff hairs, pressed together.
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Differs from C. bulbillosus in squamulose pileus and strigose bulb.
The species with strigose tarsi may be differentiated by the following key.
Sometimes both roughened parts consist of a series of minute, closely-set, parallel furrows or ridges called a strigose area, strigil, file, or rasp.
Differs from N. hirtipes in larger size, fibrillose stem, downy, not strigose at base.
The stem is slender, and the rim of the cup is beset with long, strigose hairs.
Strigillose, Strigose, beset with stout and appressed, stiff or rigid bristles.

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