rugate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin rugatus, past participle of rugare (to wrinkle), from ruga (a wrinkle).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɹuːɡeɪt/, /ˈɹuːɡət/

Adjective

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rugate (comparative more rugate, superlative most rugate)

  1. Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.
    • c. 1848, James Dwight Dana, Zoophytes:
      Unifacial, superior surface transversely rugate, with minute oririmes at the bottom of the furrows

Synonyms

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rugate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Verb

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rugate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of rugar combined with te