Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a costa or costae; ribbed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a rib or ribs; ribbed.
- Having a ridge or ridges; ridged, as if ribbed. Specifically— In entomology, having several broad elevated lines or ridges extending in a longitudinal direction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture
- adj. having ribs
Examples
“Onopordinis_, but proportionably more elongate and less convex; rostrum and thorax longer; pilosity of the body underneath much thinner and shorter; thighs thicker, more clavate, the anterior evidently costate-rugose underneath; without whitish marks on the elytra, and without that layer of light-brown earth-like pollinose transudation which is often wanting in rubbed specimens of _Larinus”
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
“-- (Fig. 159.) Shell subulate, sinistral, thick, costate, sutures small; whirls, ten, flat; ribs three, moniliform; columella smooth; canal short and deep.”
“Shell depressed, oval, costate and spinous, especially towards the margin.”
“The fundamental values of asset prices are the money-metric values that the costate variables associated with the commodities would have in some reasonable utilitarian central-planning social-welfare-maximization exercise under reasonable utilitarian preferences.”
“Aperture oval lips slightly produced; inner lip rugose; outer lip stcongly costate internally; canal moderate.”
Internet Archive: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
“FLV) which is the costate format on the web-video.”
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