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Definition of Roughish
1. Adjective. Somewhat rough.
Definition of Roughish
1. a. Somewhat rough.
Definition of Roughish
1. Adjective. Somewhat rough. ¹
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Definition of Roughish
1. somewhat rough [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roughish
Literary usage of Roughish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"B. Pedicels roughish. pusilla, Baumg. Sts. 3-6 in. high: base of Ivs. heart-
shaped or kidney-shaped; margin somewhat wavy: fls. copper-colored, ..."
2. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany, a Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1880)
"Pappus of many slender roughish bristles. Akènes narrow. ... Pappus of many
roughish slender bristles, with also an outer row of very short and stout or" ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"... and is covered with a roughish rind, which is marked with small square or
lozenge-shaped divisions, having each a small elevation in the centre; ..."
4. Flora of Los Angeles and Vicinity by Le Roy Abrams (1904)
"roughish with an almost cinereous short pubescence, 6-9 dm. high ; leaves larger
and more numerous below, passing from obovate to oblong-lanceolate, ..."
5. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"... inches high, roughish above. Fascicles 2—3 ; 2 lateral ones on long slender
peduncles. ... roughish ..."
6. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
".V/<«¡ 12 to 18 inches high, simple, or sparingly branched, roughish-pubescent,
quadrangular, with ihe angles obtuse, and sides concave. ..."
7. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"Leaves flat, acute, roughish on the upper face. Ligule, short, broad, abrupt.
Panicle three to six inches long : the branches long, slender, spreading when ..."
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