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The distinction between Eumamillaria and Coryphantha, on the basis of grooveless and grooved tubercles should always be made out easily.

From North American Species of Cactus by Coulter, John Merle

F. had a 280-calibre rifle shooting the Ross cartridge through the much advertised grooveless oval bore.

From The Land of Footprints by White, Stewart Edward

A third stone maul, being grooveless, was evidently a hand tool for breaking other stones or for grinding pigments.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter