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单词 rugose
释义 rugose, a.|ruːˈgəʊs|
[ad. L. rūgōs-us, f. rūga wrinkle, ruga.]
Marked by rugæ or wrinkles; wrinkled, corrugated, ridgy: a. Bot. Also in combs., as rugose-leaved adj.; rugose mosaic, a mosaic disease of potatoes characterized by a marked wrinkling of the leaves and increased chlorosis and dwarfing compared with other mosaics.
1703Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1424 The Fruit grows in clusters, each husk rugose.1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Leaf, Rugose Leaf, that whose veins are sunk deep, and between which the membranous and fleshy part of the leaf rises in irregular forms, so as to give upon the whole a wrinkled surface.1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 92 A rugose-leaved branchy shrub of the easiest culture.1831Davies Mat. Med. 97 This bark is generally..covered with a rugose epidermis with irregular fissures.1872Oliver Elem. Bot. App. 307 Leaves radical, tufted,..rugose.1923Schultz & Folsom in Jrnl. Agric. Res. XXV. 52 The writers believe that most of Murphy's crinkle..is identical with the type here designated as ‘rugose mosaic’ with some leaf-rolling mosaic symptoms.1967A. E. Cox Potato iv. 93 The two most serious of the virus diseases, leaf roll and rugose mosaic, are transmitted from infected to healthy plants by aphids.
b. Anat., Zool., etc.
1752Hill Hist. Anim. 144 The rugose Murex, with an expanded lip.1769E. Bancroft Guiana 383 The voice becomes hoarse, and the nails rugose and scabrous.1805Weaver tr. Werner's Fossils 151 A rugose surface is that which consists of several very slight linear elevations, forming different irregular curves.1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 387 The sides of the thorax are sometimes tuberculous or rugose and sometimes spinous.1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 46 The plates become elevated into little tubercles, roughened or not. Such a leg is said to be granulated or rugose.
c. [a. mod.L. order name Rugosa (Milne-Edwards & Haime Monogr. Brit. Fossil Corals (1850) i. p. lxiv.] Of a fossil coral: belonging to the extinct order Rugosa (or Tetracoralla), which includes horn-shaped corals with ridged surfaces.
1872H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæont. i. viii. 99 It has been shown that some..abnormal Rugose corals were provided with a lid.1935Geol. Mag. LXXII. 482 The rugose corals..are a group of Palaeozoic corals.1972Sci. Amer. June 61/2 The conical or cylindrical stone tube that sheltered the second type has conspicuous external growth wrinkles on its surface; these corals are called rugose.
d. fig.
1942A. L. Rowse Cornish Childhood vi. 133 Old Sidney was a rugose personality... I am bound to say that, rough-edged as he was with everybody, he was always very kind to me.
Hence ruˈgosely adv.
1847Darlington Amer. Weeds (1860) 260 Seeds rugosely pitted, under a lens.
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