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rimose

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Adjective

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ri=mose

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective rimose has 1 sense

rimose(s = adj.all) Array - having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices; "a tree with rimose bark"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

rimose, a. [L. rimosus, fr. rima a chink: cf. F. rimeux.].

Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks. [1913 Webster]
Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

rimose, adj. (also rimous) esp. Bot. full of chinks or fissures.

Etymology

L rimosus f. rima chink

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ROGET THESAURUS

rimose

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.

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