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Rimose definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RI'MOSE,
RI'MOUS, a. [L. rimosus, from rima.] In botany, chinky; abounding with clefts, cracks or chinks; as the bark of trees.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices; "a tree with rimose bark"

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (also rimous) esp. Bot. full of chinks or fissures. Etymology: L rimosus f. rima chink

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rimose Ri*mose", a. [L. rimosus, fr. rima a chink: cf. F. rimeux.] 1. Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.