callosity
noun
a callous condition.
callosities
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pluralof callosity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Marine experts will compare its genetic material and the patches of raised tissue on its head, known as callosities, against a vast library of genetic data from right whales.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
They developed a method of identifying individual whales in part by the raised and roughened patches, called callosities, growing in unique patterns on their skin.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2018
Both natural and unnatural markings are useful: propeller scars, but also callosities, patches of rough skin that are white because they are infested with cyamids, licelike parasites.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2013
Lip sac-shaped, sessile, entire, and without callosities at base.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
They have large cheek-pouches, large naked callosities, often brightly coloured, on the buttocks, and short thick limbs, adapted rather to walking than to climbing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
