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What is the adjective for rugosities?

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rugose
  1. Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
  2. (figuratively, rare) Rugged, rough, unrefined.
  3. (botany) Having a rough, wrinkled surface; Parasynthetic, e.g. rugose-veined or rugose-leaved.
  4. (paleontology) Describing a fossil coral of the extinct order Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), this order has horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
  5. (entomology) Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
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    1. “It is not known whether rugose corals had symbiotic photosymbiotic zooxanthellae as modern corals do.”
      “Other fossil groups include diverse rugose corals, some tabulate corals, nautiloids, gastropods, and trilobites.”
      “The leaf texture is quilted, or rugose, because the veins are depressed below the surface.”
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