Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
rugose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wrinkled; rugose.
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- adjective
wrinkled ;rugose
Etymologies
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Examples
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The exterior face of blocks to be coated with mortar or renderings should preferably be rugous, while those which do not receive a coating must be smooth.
Chapter 7 in each case the machines were broken and were not operational. 1987
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The èpicarp, or outer membrane, is slightly rugous.
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It seizes the leaves with its long rugous and narrow tongue by rolling it about them, and seems annoyed when it is obliged to take any thing from the ground, which it seems to do with difficulty.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various
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At a later stage of the disease these rugous swellings break open into festering sores; the nose and even the eyes are blotted out, and the body becomes putrid.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865
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But there are divers kinds of these ξυλόφαγοι of which the τερηδὼν or _tarmes_ we have mentioned, will sometimes make such a noise in a tree, as to awaken a sleeping man: The more rugous are the
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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