Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a costa or costae; ribbed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a rib or ribs; ribbed.
- Having a ridge or ridges; ridged, as if ribbed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
ribs , or the appearance of ribs. - adjective botany Having one or more
longitudinal ribs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture
- adjective having ribs
Etymologies
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Examples
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Onopordinis_, but proportionably more elongate and less convex; rostrum and thorax longer; pilosity of the body underneath much thinner and shorter; thighs thicker, more clavate, the anterior evidently costate-rugose underneath; without whitish marks on the elytra, and without that layer of light-brown earth-like pollinose transudation which is often wanting in rubbed specimens of _Larinus
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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-- (Fig. 159.) Shell subulate, sinistral, thick, costate, sutures small; whirls, ten, flat; ribs three, moniliform; columella smooth; canal short and deep.
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Shell depressed, oval, costate and spinous, especially towards the margin.
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The fundamental values of asset prices are the money-metric values that the costate variables associated with the commodities would have in some reasonable utilitarian central-planning social-welfare-maximization exercise under reasonable utilitarian preferences.
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Aperture oval lips slightly produced; inner lip rugose; outer lip stcongly costate internally; canal moderate.
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