Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fold, crease, or wrinkle, as in the lining of the stomach.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In zoöl., anat., and botany, a fold, ridge, or wrinkle; a crease or plait; a corrugation: variously applied, as to folds of mucous membrane or skin, the cross-bars of the hard palate, the wrinkles on a shell or a bird's bill or an insect's wing-covers, etc.: usually in the plural.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Nat. Hist.) A wrinkle; a fold.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun anatomy, biology a crease or wrinkle

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (anatomy) a fold or wrinkle or crease

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin rūga.]

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From Latin ruga

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Examples

  • One descendant of "ruga" that you'll probably recognize is "corrugate," which initially meant "to form or shape into wrinkles or folds."

    Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day 2009

  • Then he went out of the small square, down a ruga, a street with shops.

    The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

  • Christi sponsam esse tenemus, quam Christus sanguine suo lavet et purificet, et tandem Patri suo eam sine macula et ruga statuat et tradat.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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