Effigurate

Origin

Borrowed from ; compare figurate (figuratus).

Full definition of effigurate

Adjective

effigurate

(botany, of lichens) Having a definite (lobed) shape; not effuse.

1965, Nova Hedwigia, volumes 15-16, page 326:Thallus about 1 cm. in diameter, light gray irregular areoles 0:30,4 mm. in diameter on a black hypothallus, giving a deciussate appearance, marginal areoles slightly radially elongate and very narrowly black margined but not clearly effigurate;

Antonyms

effuse

Further reading

Century 1911
MWO
Collins English Dictionary
Irwin M. Brodo, Keys to Lichens of North America (2016, , page 372
Thomas H. Nash, Lichen Biology (1996, , page 40: "A thallus is called effigurate when the marginal lobes are prolonged and are radially arranged, as in many species of the genera Caloplaca, Dimelaena, Acarospora and Pleopsidium."