rimose

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ri=mose

CIDE DICTIONARY

rimose, a. [L. rimosus, fr. rima a chink: cf. F. rimeux.].

•  Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rimose, adj. (also rimous) esp. Bot. full of chinks or fissures.

Etymology

L rimosus f. rima chink

ROGET THESAURUS

rimose

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.