scrobiculate

English

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Etymology

From Latin scrobicula / scrobiculus +‎ -ate, diminutive of scrobis (a ditch or trench).[1]

Adjective

scrobiculate (comparative more scrobiculate, superlative most scrobiculate)

  1. (botany) Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted.
    • 1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2:
      The man who had been standing in the doorway stepped forward to greet them. No pheretrer he! His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia.

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References

  1. ^ scrobiculate, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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