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Torose

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope.

    "Perhaps the figure in Plum, icon t. 102, f. 1. is referrible to this species, and all the synonymes to the following, but the leaves in our plant are not peltate as int it, the flowers are smaller and the legume is not glabrous nor torose at the seeds, as represented in the figure of Plumier."

Etymology

From Latin torosus (“full of muscle, brawny, fleshy”). See torus.

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