a. Also fibrilose. [f. as prec. + -OSE.] a. Covered or supplied with fibrils; composed of fibrils. b. Marked with fine lines as if composed of fine fibrils; finely striate.
1829. Loudon, Encycl. Plants, 1099. Fibrillose, covered with little strings or fibres.
1846. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 175. The … stalk … is pale, a very little fibrilose.
1866. M. J. Berkeley, in Intell. Observ., IX. No. 50. 95. The species of Inocybe have the coat of the pileus silky or fibrillose.
