Rugose Definition

ro͝ogōs
adjective
Having or full of wrinkles; corrugated; ridged.
A rugose leaf.
Webster's New World

Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.

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(figuratively, rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.
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(paleontology) Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
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(entomology) Combined another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
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noun

Compound form: rugose mosaic. 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.

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Origin of Rugose

  • Latin rūgōsus from rūga wrinkle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin rūgōsus "wrinkled"

    From Wiktionary

Rugose Sentence Examples

  • The crop is modified into a large and very rugose triturating apparatus, while the gizzard, thereby relieved of its function, is reduced to the utmost.

  • Corals, both reef-builders and others, flourished in the clearer waters; rugose forms are represented by Amplexoid, Zaphrentid and Cyathophyllid types, and by Lithostrotion and Phillipsastraea; common tabulate forms are Chaetetes, Chladochonus, Michelinia, &c. Amongst the echinoderms crinoids were the most numerous individually, dense submarine thickets of the long-stemmed kinds appear to have flourished in many places where their remains consolidated into thick beds of rock; prominent genera are Cyathocrinus, Woodocrinus, Actinocrinus; sea-urchins, Archaeocidaris, Palaeechinus, &c., were present; while the curious extinct Blastoids, which included the groups of Pentremitidae and Codasteridae, attained their maximum development.

  • In many of these so-called rugose forms the septa have a characteristic arrangement, differing from that of recent corals chiefly in the fact that they show a tetrameral instead of a hexameral symmetry.

  • In this clay can be found rugose corals and spiky trilobites.

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