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Definition of 'rimose'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) rimose
full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.

Etymology: (1720–30; < L rīmōsus full of cracks)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) rimose
having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices
"a tree with rimose bark"

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Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) rimose
full of rimes, fissures, or chinks

2. (adj) rimose
having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees

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