Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of chinks, cracks, or crevices.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of chinks, clefts, or crevices; chinky, like the bark of a tree: specifically said, in entomology, of the sculpture of insects when the surface shows many minute narrow and generally parallel excavations. Also
rimous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.
- adjective (Nat. Hist.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a surface covered with
cracks ,fissures , orcrevices .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin rīmōsus, from rīma, fissure.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin rimosus, from rima "fissure, crevice".
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Examples
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+Cap+ 3 to 5 inches broad, reddish-orange color, becoming pale, compact, rigid, obtuse, with the margin bent inward, depressed, at length marked with lines like a river (rimose).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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(floccose squamulose), and covered with a yellow powder (pulverulent), sometimes with cracks (rimose).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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