Crossword clues for rugose
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rugose \Ru*gose"\, a. [L. rugosus, r. ruga a wrinkle.] Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation. 2 (context figurative rare English) Rugged, rough, unrefined. 3 (context botany English) Having a rough, wrinkled surface; parasynthetic, e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved. 4 (context paleontology English) Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges. 5 (context entomology English) Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate. n. Compound form: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potyvirus. One of a few mosaic diseases identified by a marked wrinkling of the leaves and greater chlorosis and dwarfing compared with other mosaics. Rugose mosaics is most commonly seen with potatoes.
WordNet
adj. of leaves; ridged or wrinkled
Wikipedia
Rugose means "wrinkled". It may refer to:
- Rugosa, an extinct order of coral, whose rugose shape earned it the name
Usage examples of "rugose".
He had quickly imagined it all, and not without reason, for surely a furious disdain was at the grey lips, lines of anger were corrugating the forehead, the rugose parchment face was fiery with distemper.
This time it seemed more an organic tube than cavern, its rugose walls looking soft and seeming to radiate heat.
She had dragged herself into a sitting position, resting her back against the rugose flank of a pine tree, her eyes as blank as two extinguished lamps.
The vast creature danced a little to the side, folding mountainous wings back against its rugose, tentacular body.
Their bones made up the wheat stalks, the soft loam under foot, the rugose trunks of shade-giving trees.
I might call it gigantic - tentacled - proboscidian - octopus-eyed - semi-amorphous - plastic - partly squamous and partly rugose - ugh!
Retracting this neck and gazing down very sharply, I saw the scaly, rugose, iridescent bulk of a vast cone ten feet tall and ten feet wide at the base.
Its hide hung loosely upon its frame, and its rugose, dead-eyed rudiment of a head swayed drunkenly from side to side.
It was all eyes - wolfish and mocking - and the rugose insect-like head dissolved at the top to a thin stream of mist which curled putridly about and finally vanished up the chimney.
Its hull, rugose with damage, bulged out on all sides past the considerable bulk of the captive bioresearch station.
And ever and anon he'd roll his head to the near side and implant a long slow nibbling kiss along the length of Chimo's carmine nether lips and then roll his head the other way to suck and tongue the faintly rugose nipples of Nixi's small upstanding breasts, now pendant, while Chimo caressed them with her right hand.
Harrar regarded the disparate faces below him the labrous and the thin-lipped, the rugose and the smooth, the hairless and the hirsute, the horned and the furrowed.
Further, as this tentacle flailed about, it seemed to throw off things from its rugose surface which hit against the walls, floor and ceiling of the room.