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Definition of Torose
1. a. Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
Definition of Torose
1. Adjective. cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Torose
1. cylindrical and swollen at intervals [adj]
Medical Definition of Torose
1. Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences. Origin: L. Torosus full of muscle, brawny, fleshy. See Torus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torose
Literary usage of Torose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"(15) The two deferent canals, after a short course, unite with two simple, long
and very flexuous accessory glands, and then form a very long and torose ..."
2. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1845)
"Calyx closed, setose; silique torose, terete, not opening by valves, 1 or 2
celled ; glands between the short stamens Ы pistil, and between the long stamens ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"... sus : torose, cylindrical with contractions at certain places or it intervals.
... sus: somewhat torose. toxica rius: poisonous. t6x icus: poisonous. ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"torose. Cylindrical with contractions at intervals. ... Diminutive of torose.
Torus. The receptacle of a flower. Tri-. In composition, throe or thrice. ..."
5. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1837)
"torose. Uneven, alternately elevated and depressed. ... Slightly torose. Trachea;.
Names given to vessels sup. posed to be designed for receiving and ..."
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