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torose

torose adjective: cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope.

Adjective

torose (comparative more torose, superlative most torose)

  1. Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope.
    • Perhaps the figure in Plum, icon t. 102, f. 1. is referrible to this species, and all the synonymes to the following, but the leaves in our plant are not peltate as int it, the flowers are smaller and the legume is not glabrous nor torose at the seeds, as represented in the figure of Plumier.1832, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 373
    • With the Carabidae, Hydrocanthari, and Lucanidae, the testicles consist of two extremely long, torose caeca, ( 31 ) of which each is sometimes enclosed in two special envelopes.1854, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold, Anatomy of the Invertebrata - Volume 1; Volume 1854, page 461

Examples of torose in a sentence

  • Several gradations between the smooth and the torose or embossed forins are to be met with, sometimes even on one hand-specimen of the shales; the most torose variety ( var. torosa, Q.1856, Edward Forbes, On the Tertiary Fluvio-marine Formation of the Isle of Wight, page 158:
  • A not uncommon state of Lysimachia stricta, without flowers, and bearing concatenate or torose bulblets in the axils, is the original of the Viscum terrestre of Linnæus .1881, Berthold Seemann, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign - Volume 19, page 326:
  • The pattern of a torose surface suggests that lower threads of flow sank down into plastic mud which then resisted being carried away.1955, Geological Society of America, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, page 1360:
  • In the LV the anterior part of the hinge is developed as a deep, oval, loculate trough which is framed proximally by a torose lip.2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 62:

Forms of torose

comparativemore torose
superlativemost torose

Origin of torose

From Latin torosus (“full of muscle, brawny, fleshy”). See torus.

Words formed from torose

Questions about torose

What does torose mean?
Torose means cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope.
How do you use torose in a sentence?
Several gradations between the smooth and the torose or embossed forins are to be met with, sometimes even on one hand-specimen of the shales; the most torose variety ( var. torosa, Q.
What part of speech is torose?
Torose is an adjective.

Words near torose in the dictionary

  1. tororo
  2. tororokombu
  3. toros
  4. torosaurus
  5. torosauruses
  6. torose
  7. Torosian
  8. Torosians
  9. torosities
  10. torosity
  11. Torosyan

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