rugose

Meaning

Adjective

• Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
• Rugged, rough, unrefined.
• Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved.
• Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla (order)), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
• Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.

Origin

• From Latin rūgōsus.