C17: from Latin verrūcōsus full of warts, from verrūca a wart
verrucose in American English
(ˈverəˌkous, vəˈruːkous)
adjective
studded with wartlike protuberances or elevations
Derived forms
verrucosity (ˌverəˈkɑsɪti)verrucoseness
noun
Word origin
[1580–90; verruc(a) + -ose1]This word is first recorded in the period 1580–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: academic, category, critical, filibuster, stigma-ose is a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin, meaning “full of,” “aboundingin,” “given to,” “like”. Other words that use the affix -ose include: frondose, globose, jocose, otiose, verbose
Examples of 'verrucose' in a sentence
verrucose
The first type determines smooth fruits, and the last form granular, verrucose, or tuberculate fruits.
Ana Maria Gonzalez 2010, 'Anatomía y desarrollo del fruto en Piriqueta y Turnera (Turneraceae) Anatomy and developmentof fruits in Piriqueta and Turnera (Turneraceae)', Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánicahttp://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1851-23722010000200006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Achene with verrucose ornament of the tegument presented low germination under darkness and high germination under light conditions.
Adriana Amaral-Baroli, Massanori Takaki 2001, 'Phytochrome controls achene germination in Bidens pilosa L. (Asteraceae) by very lowfluence response', Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132001000200002. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)