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papillous

papillous is the alternative form of papillose.

Meaning of papillose

Adjective

papillose (comparative more papillose, superlative most papillose)

  1. Bearing, covered with or resembling papillae.

Forms of papillous

comparativemore papillous
superlativemost papillous

Questions about papillous

What is papillous the alternative form of?
Papillous is the alternative form of papillose.

Words near papillous in the dictionary

  1. papillotome
  2. papillotomes
  3. papillotomies
  4. papillotomy
  5. papillotubular
  6. papillous
  7. papillulate
  8. papillule
  9. papillules
  10. papillæ
  11. papillœdema

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Adapted from Wiktionary: papillous (page history and authors); papillose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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