Rugose is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 119 anagrams from letters in rugose (egorsu).
First recorded in 1695-1705, rugose is from the Latin word rūgōsus wrinkled. See ruga, -ose1
Root very short, rugose, conical and closed; diameter 29 mm.
rugose: Short irregular folds, due to shrinkage of surface growth.
Specimens from Kansas referred here have the stipe pale, rugose, long, about twice the sporangium; habitat bark.
The surface had weathered to a whitish-gray, but still in tiny depressions its pristine dark color showed in rugose characters.
It has a rugose, tuberculated body of trapezoid form, the colors being brown and reddish, while the whole aspect is crab-like.
In H. appendiculatum the pileus is rugose when dry, and sprinkled with atoms.
The fourth glume is membranous when young, but later on it becomes thick, coriaceous and rugose at the surface.
Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose.
Instead of being thin and herbaceous it becomes rigid and hard, smooth or rugose externally as in Panicum.
It presents one seemingly solid surface of vivid color,—rugose like a cliff.