rimose

American  

[rahy-mohs, rahy-mohs] / ˈraɪ moʊs, raɪˈmoʊs /

Also rimous

adjective

1. full of crevices, chinks, or cracks.

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rimose British  

/ raɪˈmɒsɪtɪ, -ˈməʊz, raɪˈməʊs /

adjective

1. (esp of plant parts) having the surface marked by a network of intersecting cracks

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Other Word Forms

• rimosely adverb
• rimosity noun

Etymology

Origin of rimose

1720–30; < Latin rīmōsus full of cracks, equivalent to rīm ( a ) cleft, crack, chink + -ōsus -ose ¹

Example Sentences

Pileus not rimose, cuticle of interwoven fibrils, almost smooth, or adpressedly scaly, disc even; stem polished, glabrous, whitish, apex mealy. sambucina, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. exp. umb. rimose and torn into fibres, pallid, umb. darker; g. adnate, crowded, ventricose; s. subfibrillose, pallid, flesh white, no trace of bulb; sp. warted, 8-9 � 5-6.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. obtuse, rufous cinnamon, velvety then rimose; g. crowded; s. solid, floccose. sudum, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. campan. then exp. strongly umb. whitish straw-colour, umb. darker, becoming rimose, white veil at margin; g. adnato-decur. dingy ochre, edge flocculose, paler; s. white, fibrilloso-striate, curved, ring median.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The pileus is one to two inches broad, acutely conical, submembranaceous, smooth, somewhat lobed, at length expanded, and rimose; turning black, as does the whole plant when broken or bruised; orange, yellow, scarlet, brown, dusky.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha