roughish
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of roughish
Example Sentences
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One of his interviewees described the smell as "roughish but not as bad as you might think", but there were places "where they tell me the foul air will cause instant death".
From BBC
Culm 1–2° high; leaves roughish; panicle open; glumes unequal, lanceolate, their midrib and the pedicels rough.—N.
From Project Gutenberg
It is a perennial plant, producing annually several long twining roughish striated stems, which twist from left to right, are often 15 to 20 ft. long and climb freely over hedges and bushes.
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Leaves.—Ovate to oblong-lanceolate; three to six inches long; dark green; roughish.
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This tree sometimes rises to a great height, and is covered with a roughish bark.
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