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rimose

American  
[rahy-mohs, rahy-mohs] / ˈraɪ moʊs, raɪˈmoʊs /
Also rimous

adjective

  1. full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.


rimose British  
/ raɪˈmɒsɪtɪ, -ˈməʊz, raɪˈməʊs /

adjective

  1. (esp of plant parts) having the surface marked by a network of intersecting cracks

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of rimose

1720–30; < Latin rīmōsus full of cracks, equivalent to rīm ( a ) cleft, crack, chink + -ōsus -ose 1

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P. obtuse, rufous cinnamon, velvety then rimose; g. crowded; s. solid, floccose. sudum, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. campan. then exp. strongly umb. whitish straw-colour, umb. darker, becoming rimose, white veil at margin; g. adnato-decur. dingy ochre, edge flocculose, paler; s. white, fibrilloso-striate, curved, ring median.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. exp. umb. rimose and torn into fibres, pallid, umb. darker; g. adnate, crowded, ventricose; s. subfibrillose, pallid, flesh white, no trace of bulb; sp. warted, 8-9 � 5-6.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The pileus is pulvinate-ungulate, much dilated, deeply sulcate; cinnamon, then brown or blackish; very much cracked or rimose.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The pileus is one to two inches broad, acutely conical, submembranaceous, smooth, somewhat lobed, at length expanded, and rimose; turning black, as does the whole plant when broken or bruised; orange, yellow, scarlet, brown, dusky.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

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