verrucose

American  

[ver-uh-kohs, vuh-roo-kohs] / ˈvɛr əˌkoʊs, vəˈru koʊs /

adjective

1. studded with wartlike protuberances or elevations.

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verrucose British  

/ ˌvɛrʊˈkɒsɪtɪ, vɛˈruːkəs, ˈvɛrʊkəs, ˈvɛrʊˌkəʊs /

adjective

1. botany covered with warty processes

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Other Word Forms

• verrucoseness
  noun
• verrucosity
  noun

Etymology

Origin of verrucose

First recorded in 1580–90; verruc(a) + -ose ¹

Example Sentences

The latter, however, is very much smaller, the cells narrower in proportion to their length, and the margin of the opening minutely verrucose.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

They vary in size from 2–6 cm. and the outer wall is cracked into numerous coarse areas, or warts, giving the plant a verrucose appearance, from which one of the species gets its specific name.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

The characteristic of this plant is the verrucose inner peridium.

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

The sporidia in many cases are large, reticulated, echinulate or verrucose, and mostly somewhat globose.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Verrū′ciform, warty; Ver′rūcose, Ver′rūcous, covered with little knobs or wart-like prominences: warty; Verrū′culose, minutely verrucose.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various