rimose

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Definition of rimose in English English dictionary

Having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices

a tree with rimose bark.

{a} full of clefts or chinks

Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees

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

Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks

{s} full of cracks or crevices (also rimous)

rimous

Hyphenation

ri·mose

Etymology

() From Latin rimosus, from rima "fissure, crevice".