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torose

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to⋅rose

  [tawr-ohs, tohr-, taw-rohs, toh-]
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–adjective
1. Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
2. Zoology. bulging.
Also, to⋅rous  [tohr-uhs, tawr-] .

Origin:
1750–60; < L torōsus bulging, full of muscle, equiv. to tor(us) bulge + -ōsus -ose 1
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to·rose   (tôr'ōs', tōr'-)   
adj.  Cylindrical and having ridges or swellings.

[Latin torōsus, from torus, knot, bulge.]
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