corrugated

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Their sides are furrowed and corrugated, and their upper portions almost bare rock.

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  1. Wrinkled; bent or drawn into parallel furrows or ridges: as, corrugated iron. Not level and smooth, but corrugated; tossed into mountains and reefs of sand, seamed with shallow ravines, and enclosing in the sweep of the sand-hills immense plains. W. H. Russell, Diary in India, I. 34.

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  • The corrugated (mesh) allows for more heat to be released when the temperature rises especially in high volume levels to help achieve a constant operating temperature and high reliability. —  WebWire | Recent Headlines
  • A project that optimises the use of a single packaging material - corrugated board - and facilitates recycling has been chosen as the winner of SCA Packaging's 'Design Challenge' —  FoodProductionDaily RSS
  • Basically a small dusty fishing village - corrugated iron roof huts / houses, dirt pothole riddled roads, midgies, half finished buildings - the usual thing. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • It is a field of lava stones with the humblest of structures to protect the bones buried there, a corrugated-tin roof above a cement slab. —  Orion Magazine Articles
  • As a proud corrugated-American, I'd like to share my story. —  MSDN Blogs
 

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