Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi / How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

by Charles McIlvaine; Robert K. Macadam

Ven´tral (ventralis, of or pertaining to the belly, stomach, < venter, belly, stomach), applied to the under side of pileus; opposite to “dorsal.”

Ven´tricose (venter, the belly), swollen in the middle; bellied.

Vermic´ular, Vermic´ulate (vermiculus, a worm), worm-shaped.

Vermilion (cinnabarinus, cinnabarino-ruber), a very fine red color, lighter and less rosy than carmine, and not so pure or rich as scarlet.

Ver´nal (vernalis, of the spring, vernal, < ver, spring), of or pertaining to the spring.

Ver´nicose (vernix, varnish), appearing as if varnished.

Verru´ca (pl. Verru´cæ) (verruca, a wart, steep place or height), wart.

Ver´rucose (verrucosus, full of warts), covered with warts or glandular elevations.

Verru´ciform (verruca, a wart, + forma, form), warty, resembling a wart in appearance.

Verru´culose (verrucula, a little eminence, a little wart, dim. of verruca, a wart, + ose), minutely verrucose.