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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

rimosus

, fr.

rima

a chink: cf. F.

rimeux

Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.

(Nat. Hist.)

Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.

rimose

Having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices.

the rimose head of a mushroom

a tree with rimose bark

rīmōse