📚 Pruinose, adjective. 🔉 /ˈpruːɪnəʊs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Botany): Covered with white powdery granules; frosted in appearance. ❗️ Examples: 1. In L. forcipatus, it was completely pruinose (covered ventrally, laterally and dorsally) 72.5% of the time; L. disjunctus was never completely pruinescent, and never covered dorsally. 2. Main branches have a pruinose bark; twigs are either glabrous, pruinose or hairy. Phyllodes are greyish-green or glaucous, occasionally pruinose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic