ru·gose

(ro͞o′gōs′) also ru·gous (-gəs)

adj. Biology

Having a rough, ridged, or wrinkled surface: rugose spores.

[Latin rūgōsus, from rūga, wrinkle.]

ru′gose′ly adv.

ru·gos′i·ty (-gŏs′ĭ-tē) n.

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rugosity

the state or quality of being wrinkled, as the skin. — rugose, adj.

ru·gos·i·ty

n. rugosidad, arruga.

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The rugosity of each surface (Ra) was measured using a Mitutoyo Surftest-211 surface roughness tester.

Determination of the physical properties of fermented and dried Venezuelan Trinitrio cocoa beans (Theobroma cacao L.)/Determinacion de las Propiedades Fisicas de Habas Fermentadas y Secas de Cacao Trinitario Venezolano (Theobroma cacao L.)

Head, in lateral view, grading from hyaline at the cervical margin to dark ferruginous brown at frontal flange; in dorsal view coloration is a patchwork of reddish brown to dark ferruginous brown corresponding with thickness of cuticular rugosity.

A new Cryptotermes (Blattodea (Isoptera): Kalotermitidae) from Honduras and known distribution of New World Cryptotermes species

Comparison: The cheek teeth differ from a giraffid in having fairly low rugosity (Pilgrim, 1911; Khan et al., 2009; Bhatti et al., 2012).

PACHYPORTAX (BOVIDAE: RUMINANTIA) FROM DHOK PATHAN FORMATION OF SIWALIKS

TABLE 5 Temporal comparison of rugosity index ([I.sub.H]) and standar error (EE) in four sites, Bahia Culebra, Guanacaste, Costa Rica CUADRO 5 Comparacion temporal del indice de heterogeneidad del sustrato ([I.sub.H]) y error estandar (EE) en los cuatro sitios evaluados, Bahia Culebra, Guanacaste, Costa Rica Periodo 1990's Sitio N [I.sub.H] EE Palmitas 4 1.24 0.39 Guiri-Guiri 12 1.57 0.24 Playa Blanca 8 1.16 0.19 Esmeralda 12 1.11 0.18 Periodo 2011 Sitio N [I.sub.H] EE Palmitas 4 1.15 0.12 Guiri-Guiri 20 1.57 0.19 Playa Blanca 8 1.17 0.16 Esmeralda 12 1.16 0.14 N = cantidad de transectos por sitio.

Coastal development and marine ecosystems in Culebra Bay, Guanacaste, Costa Rica/Desarrollo costero y ambientes marino-costeros en Bahia Culebra, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

The rugosity, prominence of median ribs, entostyles/ectostylids, divergent styles/stylids and narrowing of the crown neck exclude the specimen from the genus Pachyportax and make their inclusion in the genus Selenoportax (Pilgrim, 1937; Akhtar, 1992; Khan et al., 2009, 2010a).

Fossil Bovidae from Late Miocene Dhok Pathan Formation of Siwaliks, Northern Pakistan

AltMV is known to manifest a wide range of symptoms including chlorotic spotting of various size, chlorosis, chlorotic local lesions, leaf distortion and curling, mosaic, mottle, necrotic spotting of various size, necrotic ringspots, rugosity, veinal necrosis, and interveinal yellowing (Table 2) [1, 2,12,15,17].

Alternanthera mosaic potexvirus: Several Features, Properties, and Application

Most of the buildings and street materials in the two cities have the same constitutive parameters (i.e., permittivity, permeability, and rugosity).

Analysis of Heuristic Uniform Theory of Diffraction Coefficients for Electromagnetic Scattering Prediction

They found that settlement responded to rugosity for a variety of biofouling organisms, including diatoms, poly-chaetes, mussels, and barnacles.

Laboratory settlement of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica influenced by substratum concavity, orientation, and tertiary arrangement

Most of Pulley Ridge is a low relief, low rugosity, rock and rubble habitat.

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