A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

denudatus,-a,-um (part.A): denuded, bare, “when a surface which has once been hairy, downy, &c. becomes naked” (Lindley); “stripped, made bare, or naked” (Jackson); stripped, having the leaves or hairs worn off, the bark fallen away; (in fungi) “uncovered or glabrous by loss of scales, etc.” (Ainsworth & Bisby); (of soil) naked, bare, exposed, lacking vegetation; naked by reason of loss of organs or coverings [> L. denudo, denudare,-avi,-atum, 1. to lay bare, uncover; to rob, plunder, to lay bare what had been secret; to disclose, reveal, detect, betray, expose; to strip, plunder (Lewis & Short)]; see naked;

- ablaqueare arbores est terra circa truncum seu caudicem in ambitu effosa radices superiores denudare & aeri exponere, ut magis fructificent (Ray), to ablaqueate trees the soil is dug out in a circle [i.e. circumference] around the trunk or caudex [i.e.stem or body of a tree], to uncover the upper roots and to subject [i.e. expose] them to the air, so they might be more fruitful [i.e. productive].

denudat: third-person singular present active indicative; [he/she] it uncovers, lays bare, discloses, reveals, exposes;

- [fungi] villus tegmineus detritus paullatim et evanidus pulverem denudat opace viridem, ad latera diutius persistens (S&A); the villus [i.e. villocity or hair-covering] that serves to cover, when little by little worn away and having disappeared, exposes a darkly green powder, persisting longer on the sides.

- ad ramos dejectos cortice denudatos, on fallen branches stripped of bark. (Stearn).

- denudatis ossibus, with the bones exposed [i.e. laid bare].

- (moss) ramis foliis denudatis, apice erectis foliosis (C. Muell.), with the branches denuded of leaves, at the apex they are erect, leafy.

- Dicranum inferne denudatum superne dichotome et fastigiato-ramosum, apice falcatum (C. Muell.), a Dicranum denuded [i.e. lacking branches] distally, above dichotomously and fistigiately branched, falcate at the apex.

- Fructus (achaenium) apice liberum et calycis limbo persistente coronatum v. rarius denudatum (B&H), the fruit (an achene) free at the apex and crowned with the persisting limb of the calyx or more rarely naked.

- [algae] Hab. ad rupes obscuriusculas refluenti mari denúdatas in caespites minutas erectiusculas collecta (Agardh), it grows colleted on rocks rather more obscure (DARK) exposed [i.e. laid bare] by the ebbing of the sea in minute, somewhat erect clumps.

- Patria: in locis turfosis, humidis, denudatis totius fere Europae ex. gr. prope Bipontem in palatinatu (Schimper), (Jaeg.Sauerb.), native land: in peaty, damp, exposed places of almost the whole of Europe for example near Bipontis [Zweibrücken, in Bavaria] in the Palatinate.

- [lichen] thallus podetiis gracilescentibus vel gracilibus mediocris altitudine (1 -3-pollicaribus), axi pallide ochraceo arachnoideo-tomentoso aut denudato (Nyl.), with podetia tending to slenderness or moderately slender, (1 – 3 inches in height, with the axis pale ochraceous [i.e. yellow-brown] arachnoid-tomentose [i.e. like spider-webs] or bare [i.e. lacking tomentum].

- Ad rupes et terram denudatam arenaceoargillosam per rcgionem montanam sylvaticam Germaniae (C. Muell.), on rocks and exposed, sandy-clay soil throughout the forested mountain region of Germany.

- In terra humida denudata per regionem alpinam Scotiae (C. Muell.), on damp, bare soil throughout the alpine [i.e. highland] region of Scotland.

(moss) Dicranum denudatum Brid.