Strigose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Zoology Marked with fine, close-set grooves, ridges, or streaks.
  • adj. Botany Having stiff, straight, closely appressed hair: strigose leaves.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having fine grooves, ridges, or streaks
  • adj. Having stiff hairs, pressed together
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In botany, rough with strigæ; beset with sharp-pointed and appressed straight and stiff hairs or bristles: as, a strigose leaf or stem.
  • In entomology, streaked, or finely fluted; having fine, close parallel ridges or points, like the surface of a file. Also strigate.
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