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...
- 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...
- : 221  It is extremely variable in its growth forms, being verruculose, rimose, areolate, or squamulose.: 221  It has 0.2–1.5 mm round to angular areoles...
- placed it in genus Astrothelium because of the "well-developed, corticate, rimose thallus", but acknowledge that it might belong to genus Pseudopyrenula....
- Megasporaceae. It has four species. The genus is characterised by its crustose, rimose-areolate thallus that is partially continuous and has a K+ (red) reaction...
- (bluish sunken disk lichen) is a rough surfaced, bluish-tinged pale gray rimose to areolate crustose lichen, endemic to California.: 226  It mostly grows...
- pale grey to dark brown and is up to 100 μm thick. The lichen has a rimose or rimose-areolate texture, with areoles measuring 0.1–0.4 mm wide. The lichen...
- the thallus is generally smooth, however it is sometimes broken up by “rimose” cracks. These cracks are a by-product of thallus surface shrinkage, which...
- prothallus), and a yellow medulla. The thallus texture is ****ed and fissured (rimose); its species epithet rimosum alludes to this characteristic. the lichen...