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Webster 1913 Edition
Rugose
Ru-gose′
,Adj.
[L.
rugosus
, r. ruga
a wrinkle.] Wrinkled; full of wrinkles;
specifically
(Bot.)
, having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rugose
RU'GOSE
,Definition 2024
rugose
rugose
English
Adjective
rugose (comparative more rugose, superlative most rugose)
- Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
- (figuratively, rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.
- (botany) Having a rough, wrinkled surface; Parasynthetic, e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved.
- (paleontology) Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
- (entomology) Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
Derived terms
Translations
having a rough wrinkled surface
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