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  • adjective Without a groove or grooves.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ grooved

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Examples

  • I prefer mine ungrooved because I like that waxy, shiny look as the gnocchi bask away in the bowl after cooking, dressed up in their finest glistening sauce.

    Archive 2004-03-01 2004

  • I prefer mine ungrooved because I like that waxy, shiny look as the gnocchi bask away in the bowl after cooking, dressed up in their finest glistening sauce.

    What I cooked last night. 2004

  • I prefer mine ungrooved because I like that waxy, shiny look as the gnocchi bask away in the bowl after cooking, dressed up in their finest glistening sauce.

    What I cooked last night. 2004

  • A smaller and still smaller air leak is permitted until finally an ungrooved cork is tolerated.

    Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

  • A thin slice of the radius is then to be cut also with the saw, so thin as to remove only the bevelled ungrooved portion, and leaving the tendons as far as possible undisturbed in their grooves.

    A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

  • Fundamental changes in the technical regulations, meanwhile, have led to a major overhaul of aerodynamics, the optional addition of KERS and a compulsory return to ungrooved

    unknown title 2009

  • Fundamental changes in the technical regulations, meanwhile, have led to a major overhaul of aerodynamics, the optional addition of KERS and a compulsory return to ungrooved

    unknown title 2009

  • DESCRIPTION. -- after Dr. Anderson, who first discovered and named this species: "Dark brown on the head, neck, shoulders, and sides passing into a deep black on the extremities, a very narrow white line passing backwards from behind the angle of the mouth to the shoulder; under surface brownish; the spiny hairs of the anterior part of the trunk flattened, grooved or ungrooved.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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