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torous

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to⋅rose

[tawr-ohs, tohr-, taw-rohs, toh-]
–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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