erose

American  

[ih-rohs] / ɪˈroʊs /

adjective

1. uneven, as if gnawed away.

2. Botany. having the margin irregularly incised as if gnawed, as a leaf.

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erose British  

/ -ˈrəʊz, ɪˈrəʊs /

adjective

1. jagged or uneven, as though gnawed or bitten

   erose leaves

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Other Word Forms

• erosely adverb

Etymology

Origin of erose

1785–95; < Latin ērōsus, past participle of ērōdere. See erode

Example Sentences

In some grasses it is a distinct membrane narrow or broad, with an even, truncate or erose margin, or finely ciliate.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The first glume is very short less than 1/5 inch, broadly oblong, nerveless, hyaline, broadly truncate and erose at the apex.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Flowers large, solitary on long terminal peduncles, mostly 4-merous; corolla campanulate-funnel-form, its lobes usually fimbriate or erose, not crowned; a row of glands between the bases of the filaments.

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 Gray, Asa

The fourth glume is narrow, ciliate, nerveless or rarely 1-nerved, erose or bifid at the top.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

These lawyers, six and four, Was a livin at their ease, A sendin of their writs abowt, And droring in the fees, When their erose a cirkimstance As is like to make a breeze.

From Ballads by Thackeray, William Makepeace