rugose
[roo-gohs, roo-gohs]
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adjective
having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
Botany. rough and wrinkled: applied to leaves in which the reticulate venation is very prominent beneath, with corresponding creases on the upper side.
Origin of rugose
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Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose.
A Handbook of Some South Indian GrassesRai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
Specimens from Kansas referred here have the stipe pale, rugose, long, about twice the sporangium; habitat bark.
The North American Slime-MouldsThomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
It has a rugose, tuberculated body of trapezoid form, the colors being brown and reddish, while the whole aspect is crab-like.
A Book of Natural HistoryVarious
The surface had weathered to a whitish-gray, but still in tiny depressions its pristine dark color showed in rugose characters.
The Riddle Of The RocksCharles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)
In H. appendiculatum the pileus is rugose when dry, and sprinkled with atoms.
rugose
rugous or rugate (ˈruːɡeɪt, -ɡɪt)
adjective
Word Origin for rugose
C18: from Latin rūgōsus, from rūga a wrinkle
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rugose
[rōō′gōs′]
adj.
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