That's a pretty squamous, rugose, and blasphemous thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Ayatollah and the Philosophe] Reference
Bean rugose mosaic and several others are spread by beetles. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Abdomen ovate, smooth and shining; the nodes of the petiole rugose. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
And by esoteric, I mean "squamous and rugose", nudge nudge wink wink. From Wordnik.com. [(Insert clever title about cleaning here) with the Laundry!] Reference
Grain is orbicular to ovate, concavo-convex, red-brown, and transversely rugose. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
In the sea strophomenid and atrypid brachiopods, rugose and tabulate corals, and crinoids are abundant. From Wordnik.com. [Table of geologic time - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Their bones made up the wheat stalks, the soft loam under foot, the rugose trunks of shade-giving trees. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Instead of being thin and herbaceous it becomes rigid and hard, smooth or rugose externally as in Panicum. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The fourth glume is membranous when young, but later on it becomes thick, coriaceous and rugose at the surface. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The view expanded toward one of these trees, to center upon the rugose brown-black trunk, which stirred and moved. From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
Finally, something more frightening than the epilogue to The Invisible Man, with nary a squamous or rugose in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it] Reference
Eddie saw one of the lobstrosities loom over his face, its rugose eyes dead yet hideously sparkling with hideous life. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
I remember being in high school reading Lovecraft with a dictionary beside me to look up works like “rugose” and “ululation”. From Wordnik.com. [Terrific Tuesday with Sean McLachlan:)] Reference
However, she'd had neither the time nor the patience to tend persnickety plants and so grew only daylilies and hostas and rugose roses. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Abdomen: the petiole as long as the thorax, narrowest at the base of the abdomen; it is rugose at the base; the ovipositor pale testaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Black; the head and thorax finely rugose; the antennæ elongate, longer than the insect; the apical half of the flagellum pale ferruginous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Abdomen aciculate as in the worker, but much more deeply strangulated between the first and second segments; the petiole rugose and clavate. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Later Paleozoic seas were dominated by crinoid and blastoid echinoderms, articulate brachiopods, graptolites, and tabulate and rugose corals. From Wordnik.com. [Paleozoic] Reference
Abdomen bright orange-red, with the third and following segments black; the base rugose, the second segment finely punctured, the rest much more strongly so. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Thorax rugose-striate, the anterior lateral angles dentate, the metathorax without spines; the femora thickly incrassate and greatly attenuated at their base. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Thorax: the tegulæ pale rufo-testaceous, wings hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the metathorax coarsely rugose; the articulations of the legs and the tarsi ferruginous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Head and thorax rugose; the antennæ and tarsi rufo-testaceous; the eyes rather prominent, the groove above them at the sides of the head extending backwards to the vertex. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
HP Lovercraft was the inventor of a ground-effects vehicle in the late 1930's, who was last seen in a crypt in southern Louisiana, being carried off by a squamous rugose cone. From Wordnik.com. [What Book Turned You Into a Science Fiction Fan?] Reference
"A fistulous, a rugose, salebrous, --" cut in the Captain, close on the left. From Wordnik.com. [All Around the Moon] Reference
It presents one seemingly solid surface of vivid color, -- rugose like a cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
Panæolus retirugis, showing rugose character of cap in left-hand plant (natural size). From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
The former is like that of the chimpanzee in shape, but less rugose on its grinding surface. From Wordnik.com. [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference
It has a rugose, tuberculated body of trapezoid form, the colors being brown and reddish, while the whole aspect is crab-like. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference
The surface had weathered to a whitish-gray, but still in tiny depressions its pristine dark color showed in rugose characters. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895] Reference
This they seem to be enabled to do from the rugose structure of their feet, with which they adhere strongly to the smoothest surface. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
The = pileus = is convex to expanded, sometimes broadly umbonate, drab in color, the surface wrinkled or rugose, and watery in appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
It is distinguished from the latter by the dark brown color of the pileus and by the presence usually of rugose wrinkles over the center of the cap. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
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