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ribbed (root: rib)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective ribbed has 2 senses
- ribbed(a = adj.all) Array - furnished or strengthened with ribs; Array Antonym: ribless
- ribbed(s = adj.all) costate - (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture; Array
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ribbed, a.
- Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth. [1913 Webster]
- Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
ribbed
canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, crimped, cut, dadoed, engraved, fluted, furrowed, gashed, goffered, gouged, grooved, incised, pleated, rabbeted, rifled, rutted, rutty, scored, scratched, slit, striated, sulcate, sulcated, troughed, wrinkledROGET THESAURUS
ribbed
Furrow
N furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit, chamfer, fluting, corduroy road, cradle hole, channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke, moat, fosse, trough, kennel, ravine, tajo, thank-ye-ma'am, furrowed, ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated, bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated, canaliferous, trisulcate, corduroy, unisulcate, costate, rimiform.
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