Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a rough, ridged, or wrinkled surface.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having rugæ; rugate or rugous; corrugated; wrinkled.
- In botany, rough and wrinkled: applied to leaves in which the reticulate venation is very prominent beneath, with corresponding creases on the upper side, and also to lichens, algæ, etc., in which the surface is reticulately roughened.
- Specifically, of or pertaining to the Rugosa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Wrinkled; full of wrinkles
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
wrinkles ,creases orridges - adjective botany Having a
rough , wrinkledsurface
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of leaves; ridged or wrinkled
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Finally, something more frightening than the epilogue to The Invisible Man, with nary a squamous or rugose in sight.
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I remember being in high school reading Lovecraft with a dictionary beside me to look up works like “rugose” and “ululation”.
Terrific Tuesday with Sean McLachlan:) Molly Daniels 2010
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I remember being in high school reading Lovecraft with a dictionary beside me to look up works like “rugose” and “ululation”.
Archive 2010-06-01 Molly Daniels 2010
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And by esoteric, I mean "squamous and rugose", nudge nudge wink wink.
(Insert clever title about cleaning here) with the Laundry! Big Jim 2008
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And by esoteric, I mean "squamous and rugose", nudge nudge wink wink.
Archive 2008-08-01 Big Jim 2008
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That's a pretty squamous, rugose, and blasphemous thought.
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Later Paleozoic seas were dominated by crinoid and blastoid echinoderms, articulate brachiopods, graptolites, and tabulate and rugose corals.
Paleozoic 2009
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The Permian extinction, 244 million years ago, devastated the marine biota: tabulate and rugose corals, blastoid echinoderms, graptolites, and most crinoids died out, as did the last of the trilobites.
Paleozoic 2009
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The Jennifer Morgue takes the reader on a wild adventure through the worlds of Lovecraft and Ian Fleming, non-Euclidian mathematics and computer hackerdom — sort of like Austin Powers, only more squamous and rugose — with fast cars and faster women.
Archive 2008-12-01 RobB 2008
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The Jennifer Morgue takes the reader on a wild adventure through the worlds of Lovecraft and Ian Fleming, non-Euclidian mathematics and computer hackerdom — sort of like Austin Powers, only more squamous and rugose — with fast cars and faster women.
Books in the Mail (W/E 12/20/2008) RobB 2008
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The central growing stem is particularly stout, and the foliage, which can be either regular or potato leaf, tends to be a darker bluish green and have a puckered, wrinkled characteristic that is known as "rugose".
slumry commented on the word rugose
Rosa rugosa has wringkly leaves
August 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word rugose
Perhaps she needs to exfoliate.
August 9, 2007