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strigose

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stri⋅gose

  [strahy-gohs]
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–adjective
1. Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
2. Zoology. marked with fine, closely set ridges, grooves, or points.
Origin:
1785–95; < L strig(a) furrow, row of bristles (akin to stria stria ) + -ose 1
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stri·gose   (strī'gōs')   
adj.  

  1. Zoology Marked with fine, close-set grooves, ridges, or streaks.

  2. Botany Having stiff, straight, closely appressed hair: strigose leaves.


[New Latin strigōsus, from striga, bristle, from Latin, windrow, furrow; see streig- in Indo-European roots.]
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