rugose

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• of leaves; ridged or wrinkled

Adj

• 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), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
• Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.

Synonyms

bewrinkled, coarse, harsh, purfly, rough, squarrose, wrinkled, wrinkly