rugose

Meaning

1. Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
2. Rugged, rough, unrefined.
3. Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. "rugose-veined" or "rugose-leaved".
4. Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
5. Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.

Synonyms

rugous

wrinkled

plicate

runty

scrubby

shrunk

crinkled

withered

wrinkly

shrunken

crumpled

rumpled

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹʊˈɡəʊs/

Etymology

From Latin rūgōsus (“wrinkled”).