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  • Rugose

    Wrinkled; (More strictly) covered in reticulate lines, with the spaces in between convex. With wrinkled or creased surface.  

  • Rugae

    Wrinkles, folds. Folds and ridges of tissue present in mucous membranes of organs such as the intestine and vagina.  

  • Rufous

    (Colour) reddish (various shades).  

  • Rufescent

    Becoming reddish.  

  • Rudimentary

    Small and non-functional, arrested at an early stage of development. Imperfectly developed. Existing in a small form, or not developed fully. Underdeveloped or only partially formed, often referred to as vestigial or abortive.  

  • Ruderal

    From the Latin rudus, meaning ‘old rubbish’, growing in waste places. A habitat which is dry, generally under-vegetated and often waste ground, usually colonised by pioneering or ‘weedy’ species of plants.  

  • Rounded

    (Usually of the base or apex of a plane shape) smoothly curved, without abrupt angles. The apex gently curved.  

  • Rotundate

    (Plane shape) between oblong and rounded in outline.  

  • Rotund

    2-dimensional shape between oblong and rounded in outline, nearly round. Having a roundish outline.  

  • Rotate

    Wheel-shaped, usually of a corolla with a very short tube and spreading lobes. Having the parts flat and spreading or radiating like the spokes of a wheel. To move in a circle, or make something move in a circle.  

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