Definition of Rimose. Meaning of Rimose. Synonyms of Rimose

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Definition of Rimose

Rimose
Rimose Ri*mose", a. [L. rimosus, fr. rima a chink: cf. F. rimeux.] 1. Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.

Meaning of Rimose from wikipedia

- Rimose is an adjective used to describe a surface that is cracked or fissured. The term is often used in describing crustose lichens. A rimose surface...
- have a distinct odor (fruity, honey-like, fishy). The pileus is radially rimose ("Rimosae") or can be squamulose to squarrose ("Cervicolores"). The lamella...
- placed it in genus Astrothelium because of the "well-developed, corticate, rimose thallus", but acknowledge that it might belong to genus Pseudopyrenula....
- polygonal "islands" of cracked-up mud in a dried lakebed. This is called being rimose or areolate, and the "island" pieces separated by the cracks are called...
- Buellia disciformis, the boreal button lichen, is a thin, bluish to pale gray rimose to areolate crustose lichen that grows on bark (rarely also on wood) in...
- that the crust surface becomes irregularly wrinkled (verrucose) and partly rimose (containing clefts, cracks, or fissures). Secondary chemicals produced by...
- (bluish sunken disk lichen) is a rough surfaced, bluish-tinged pale gray rimose to areolate crustose lichen, endemic to California.: 226  It mostly grows...
- instance of a leaf, that is roughly diamond-shaped with length equal to width. rimose with many cracks, as in the surface of a crustose areolate lichen. root...
- has a thallus, or main body, that varies from cracked (rimose) to a cracked and patchy (rimose-areolate) appearance. It ranges from thin to thick, generally...
- Island. The thallus of Buellia phillipensis is crustose and has a rimose to rimose-areolate texture, spreading up to 15 mm wide. The areoles are crowded...