rugose🔊

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

(rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.

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

(paleontology) Describing fossil corals of the extinct order †(order) (also called (order)), that have horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.

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