A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin


wrinkled, shrivelled, creased: rugosus,-a,-um (adj.A), 'transversely wrinkled or undulate; longitudinally wrinkled;' caperatus,-a,-um (part.A), ‘wrinkled, shrivelled;’ corrugatus,-a,-um (part.A), 'irregularly crumpled, wrinkled'; corrugis,-e (adj.B), ‘having wrinkles or folds, corrugate;’ plicatus,-a,-um (adj.A) 'pleated'; pannuceus,-a,-um (adj.A): ragged, tattered; wrinkled, shriveled (Glare); rugatus,-a,-um (part.A), wrinkled, rugose, shrivelled; ridged, rumpled; sulcatus,-a,-um (part.A): sulcate, furrowed or grooved, strongly plicate, with deep, longitudinal folds, more pronounced than striate or plicate; crumpled and irregularly bent: labyrinthiformis,-e (adj.B); see aratus,-a,-um (part.A); - sinus chlamydis corruges, the corrugated recesses of the chlamys. in Gk. comp., rhyti-, rhytido-; cf. striate, plicate, undulate; see withered; - calyx primo succulentus deinde in sicco rugatus, calyx at first succulent then in the dry (state) wrinkled. crispato-rugosus,-a,-um (adj.A): “when the wrinkles of a surface are deep and sharp-edged” (Lindley). Rhytidium rugosum, a species of moss with transversely wrinked leaves; Rozites caperata (Fr.) Mich., a mushroom in allusion to its wrinkled margin.
State of being wrinkled or shrivelled: rugositas,-atis (s.f.III), abl. sg. rugositate. wrinkled-: in L. comp.: caperat-, caperato-; corrugat-, corrugato-; rugos-, rugoso-; in Gk. comp. rhysso-, rhyti-, rhytido-, q.v. Vernonia rugosifolia; Rhyssocarpus; Rhyssolobium; Rhyssopteris; Rhyssostelma; Rhytidocaulon.
somewhat wrinkled: rugosulosus,-a,-um (adj.A), rugosiusculus,-a,-um (adj.A).