English Dictionary

rugose

/ɹʊˈɡəʊs/

adj

Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation. / (figuratively, rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.

Her rugose skin showed the signs of aging.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(figuratively, rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.

意味（3）

(botany) Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved.

Petraea foliis rugosis ovatis. The oval, rugose-leaved Petraea. The root is brachiated; the shrub rises to ten feet high: the leaves are three inches long, an inch and a half broad, even at the edges, and very rough to the touch: (Note: In modern nomenclature, the plant in question probably is Petrea rugosa, as the spelling Petraea does not seem to match any extant genus,)

意味（4）

(paleontology) Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.

意味（5）

(entomology) Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.