rugose

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Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose KEY TO THE SPECIES Spikelets pointing upward at an acute angle with the rachis of the spike Spikes 1 to 5 inches long, digitate erect 1.

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  1. adjective Having many wrinkles or creases; ridged or wrinkled.
  2. adjective Botany Having a rough, wrinkled surface, as in certain prominently veined leaves.

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  • Clamped to its rugose, tapering head was a semi-circular metal disk, somewhat resembling an aluminum eye-shield. —  June, 1943
  • The epicarp is either smooth or rugose (sulcate or covered in scales or spines). the endocarp is the membranous or woody portion of the fruit. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose KEY TO THE SPECIES Spikelets pointing upward at an acute angle with the rachis of the spike Spikes 1 to 5 inches long, digitate erect 1. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • They are deeply rugose, triangular, and compressed, deeper than broad at the base, forming a bold sweep of about four-fifths of a circle, the points turning outwards, and ending obtusely. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • It has a rugose, tuberculated body of trapezoid form, the colors being brown and reddish, while the whole aspect is crab-like. —  A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
 

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  1. Latin rūgōsus, from rūga, wrinkle.

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  1. from Latin rugosus, wrinkled: see rugous.
 

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