Usually means: Covered with a frosty bloom.
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  1. pruinose: Merriam-Webster
  2. pruinose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pruinose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pruinose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pruinose: Wordnik
  6. pruinose: Wiktionary
  7. pruinose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pruinose: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Pruinose, pruinose: Dictionary.com
  10. Pruinose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Pruinose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. pruinose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Pruinose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pruinose: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pruinose: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. pruinose: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRAGONFLY TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Pruinose: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pruinose)

adjective:  (botany) Having a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface.
adjective:  (zoology, entomology) Covered with a very fine whitish layer of wax particles.

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