rugose
(adjective) of leaves; ridged or wrinkled
Source: WordNet® 3.1
rugose (comparative more rugose, superlative most rugose)
Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
(figurative, rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.
(botany) Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved.
(paleontology) Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
(entomology) Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
• (having rugae): bewrinkled, purfly, wrinkly; see also wrinkled
• (rugged, rough): coarse, harsh, squarrose; see also rough
• -gerous, Rogues, grouse, orgues, rogues, rouges
Source: Wiktionary
Ru*gose", a. Etym: [L. rugosus, r. ruga a wrinkle.]
Definition: Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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