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Definition of Rimose
1. Adjective. Having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices. "A tree with rimose bark"
Definition of Rimose
1. a. Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.
Definition of Rimose
1. Adjective. Having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rimose
1. marked by cracks [adj] : RIMOSELY [adv]
Medical Definition of Rimose
1. 1. Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks. 2. Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees. Origin: L. Rimosus, fr. Rima a chink: cf. F. Rimeux. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rimose
Literary usage of Rimose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1904)
"8 3. Spores hyaline. 4 Spores yellowish brown. 6 4. Pileus becoming more or less
rimose with age. 5 Pileus covered even in age with a smooth horny crust. ..."
2. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1902)
"A blackish ungulate plant of large size with furrowed rimose surface and long
brown tubes. Pileus woody, broadly ungulate, attached by a narrow base, ..."
3. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1908)
"Putrescent, solitary or gregarious: pileus thin, dry, silky, smooth, not rimose
... as a whole is easily distinguished by the rimose surface of the pileus. ..."
4. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... membranaceous, more or less rugged and rimose, brown or greyish-olive, often
tinged with ... smooth or slightly pulverulent, rimose, dark dusky-olive. ..."
5. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England), Bristol Naturalists' Society (1891)
"... exactly with the above description, except that the perithecia are scarcely
rimose. They would probably become so with more advanced age. 1379. ..."
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