papilloseadj.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 425 The Anas, with a naked papillose face. The Muscovy Duck.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Leaf Papillose Leaf, one whose surface is covered with little roundish protuberances, or vesicles.

1773–4 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 155 To the under-lip is fixed a bilobated beard-like, papillose caruncula; it has no teeth.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 532/1 The tongue..becomes soft and papillose.

?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. xvi Burdock... Anthers exserted; filaments papillose.

1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 366 In Pelmatochromis a papillose pad on each side of the pharynx, close to the upper part of the branchial arches, appears as a strong prominence in front of the latter when the gill-cover is lifted up.

1990 Plants & Gardens Autumn 14/1 In contrast S. aucuparia has ovoid (egg shaped) blackish buds more or less covered with largely white hairs, oblong leaflets which are papillose beneath as seen at ×100 and fruit which appear matt.

1881 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 19 115 The papillosity of the upper part of the back of the nerve alone thoroughly distinguishes it.

1958 Brittonia 10 133 The characters vary only in degree: length and amount of twisting of the teeth, height of the basal membrane, degree of splitting, papillosity, and markings.

1990 Lindbergia 15 79 Of the taxonomic characters traditionally used, leaf connateness was found to be unreliable while papillosity, colour, and oil bodies may be more useful.