Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Finely rugose; full of little wrinkles.

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

  • adjective Somewhat rugose.

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  • adjective Somewhat rugose; having small wrinkles.

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Examples

  • The _fourth glume_ is ellipsoidal, obtuse, chartaceous, minutely and obscurely rugulose, faintly 3-nerved, with the base somewhat thickened.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _fourth glume_ is ovate or oblong, rugulose, chartaceous, apex with a distinct mucro concealed in the second and third glumes; _palea_ same as the glume in texture, etc.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _fourth glume_ is slightly shorter than the third, oblong or elliptic, apiculate, minutely rugulose, thinly coriaceous, with bisexual flower;

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • Grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, or concavo-convex, red-brown and rugulose on the ventral side.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The grain is obovoid, truncate at the apex, and with a small white swelling in the centre at the apex, rugulose, red-brown.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • Grain is nearly globose, compressed on one side, obscurely rugulose.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • Head transverse, slightly rugulose; third joint of the antennæ conical; arista thinly plumose; thorax very finely punctured; scutellum almost semicircular; abdomen blue, smooth; tarsi yellow; wings black, dark grey towards the hind border, with whitish points towards the costa; discal transverse vein parted by about its length from the border and by more than its length from the præbrachial transverse.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • The _fourth glume_ is broadly ovate, or suborbicular, very concave, coriaceous, transversely rugulose, yellowish brown.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _fourth glume_ is ovoid-oblong, acute, coriaceous, rugulose, with short broadened stipes, and three faint nerves; _palea_ similar to the glume in texture and markings.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The = pileus = is thin, conic, bell-shaped to convex and nearly expanded, sometimes with a small umbo, smooth, and finely striate on the margin, in age the striæ sometimes rugulose from the upturning of the margin.

    Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

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