Rugose

Quick meaning: Rugose is an adjective meaning Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.

Meaning

Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.
2. (botany) Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. "rugose-veined" or "rugose-leaved".
3. (entomology) Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
4. (paleontology) Describing fossil corals of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), that have horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.

Example Sentences

The original leaves were flat and very rugose, and almost hid by the numerous single-stemmed flowers; while the leaves produced in the umbellate state were larger, more upright, and less wrinkled.

Petraea foliis rugosis ovatis. The oval, rugose-leaved Petraea. The root is brachiated; the shrub rises to ten feet high: the leaves are three inches long, an inch and a half broad, even at the edges, and very rough to the touch: (Note: In modern nomenclature, the plant in question probably is Petrea rugosa, as the spelling "Petraea" does not seem to match any extant genus,)

Synonyms for rugose

Depending on context, synonyms include bewrinkled, purfly, wrinkly, coarse, harsh, squarrose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rough, unsmooth, coarsely, corals, rugate, rugous.

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