erose

“It gets harder and harder, until you're trying to guess what "erose" means ( "jagged", apparently).”

Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph

“I came slowly around to the erose, pitted fins, to look across a firebared space at the new ship.”

The Zero Stone

“The _first glume_ is very short less than 1/5 inch, broadly oblong, nerveless, hyaline, broadly truncate and erose at the apex.”

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

“In some grasses it is a distinct membrane narrow or broad, with an even, truncate or erose margin, or finely ciliate.”

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

“Sterile flowers terminal or axillary on wood of the preceding year, 1/2-3/4 inch long, cylindrical; anthers pinkish-red: fertile flowers lateral along previous season's shoots, erect; scales madder-purple, spirally imbricated, broader than long, margin entire or slightly erose.”

Handbook of the Trees of New England

“= -- April to May, a week or two earlier than the red spruce; sterile flowers terminal or axillary, on wood of the preceding year; about 3/8 inch long, ovate; anthers madder-red: fertile flowers at or near end of season's shoots, erect; scales madder-red, spirally imbricated, broader than long, margin erose, rarely entire.”

Handbook of the Trees of New England

“= -- Cones upon dwarf branches, erect or inclining upwards, ovoid to cylindrical, 1/2-3/4 of an inch long, purplish or reddish brown while growing, light brown at maturity, persistent for at least a year; scales thin, obtuse to truncate; edge entire, minutely toothed or erose; seeds small, winged.”

Handbook of the Trees of New England

“_fourth glume_ is narrow, ciliate, nerveless or rarely 1-nerved, erose or bifid at the top.”

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses