rugose
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
rugose
- Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
- (figurative, rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.
- (botany) Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved.
- (paleontology) Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
- (entomology) Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
- (having rugae) bewrinkled, purfly, wrinkly; see also Thesaurus:wrinkled
- (rugged) coarse, harsh, squarrose; see also Thesaurus:rough
- Spanish: rugoso
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