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Word: Rimose
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late 17th century; earliest use found in Elisha Coles. From classical Latin rīmōsus full of cracks, fissured from rīma cleft, crack, fissure + -ōsus
Definition:
Now especially of a fungus or lichen: cracked, fissured.
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