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Definition of Rugosities
1. rugosity [n] - See also: rugosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rugosities
Literary usage of Rugosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... slightly prominent, brownish-black, solitary, irregularly scattered over the
rugosities of the thallus. The spermatia are numerous, very elegantly ..."
2. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1897)
"Osborn's objection to considering the rugosities on the nasals of ... as indicative
of horns because he finds similar rugosities on the ..."
3. Revision of the Pelycosauria of North America by Ermine Cowles Case (1907)
"The clavicle has a rounded anterior end marked by deep, radiating rugosities.
The posterior end is narrowed and carries strong rugosities marking the ..."
4. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"rugosities of dorsum of pronotum irregularly distributed ; median carina of ...
Dorsum of prothorax with very prominent, often sharp, rugosities ; fuscous ..."
5. On the Genesis of Species by Saint George Jackson Mivart (1871)
"Clearly only two pairs of rugosities were so preserved and developed, and all
limbs (on this view) are descendants of the same two pairs, as all have so ..."
6. Rhynchophora Or Weevils of North Eastern America by Willis Stanley Blatchley, Charles William Leng (1916)
"Pronotum with sides parallel, rugosities fine, with small, shining, median
elevation and ... Pronotum with sides parallel, anterior rugosities fine, ..."
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