scrobiculate
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin scrobicula / scrobiculus + -ate, diminutive of scrobis (“a ditch or trench”).[1]
Adjective
scrobiculate (comparative more scrobiculate, superlative most scrobiculate)
- (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:
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References
- “scrobiculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “scrobiculate, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.