"torose" meaning in English

See torose in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more torose [comparative], most torose [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin torosus (“full of muscle, brawny, fleshy”). See torus. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|torosus|t=full of muscle, brawny, fleshy}} Latin torosus (“full of muscle, brawny, fleshy”), {{lena}} Head templates: {{en-adj}} torose (comparative more torose, superlative most torose)
  1. Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope. Derived forms: torosity
    Sense id: en-torose-en-adj-FQh3t862 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSONL data for torose meaning in English (3.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "torosus",
        "t": "full of muscle, brawny, fleshy"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin torosus (“full of muscle, brawny, fleshy”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "lena"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin torosus (“full of muscle, brawny, fleshy”).\n See torus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more torose",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most torose",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "torose (comparative more torose, superlative most torose)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "torosity"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1832, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 373",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold, Anatomy of the Invertebrata - Volume 1; Volume 1854, page 461",
          "text": "With the Carabidae, Hydrocanthari, and Lucanidae, the testicles consist of two extremely long, torose caeca, ( 31 ) of which each is sometimes enclosed in two special envelopes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, Edward Forbes, On the Tertiary Fluvio-marine Formation of the Isle of Wight, page 158",
          "text": "Several gradations between the smooth and the torose or embossed forins are to be met with, sometimes even on one hand-specimen of the shales; the most torose variety ( var. torosa, Q. J. G. S. loc. cit. fig. 8) occurs in the buff marl with selenite, eight or nine feet above the Rissoa-bed-weith Planorbis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881, Berthold Seemann, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign - Volume 19, page 326",
          "text": "A not uncommon state of Lysimachia stricta, without flowers, and bearing concatenate or torose bulblets in the axils, is the original of the Viscum terrestre of Linnæus .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Geological Society of America, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, page 1360",
          "text": "The pattern of a torose surface suggests that lower threads of flow sank down into plastic mud which then resisted being carried away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 62",
          "text": "In the LV the anterior part of the hinge is developed as a deep, oval, loculate trough which is framed proximally by a torose lip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope."
      ],
      "id": "en-torose-en-adj-FQh3t862",
      "links": [
        [
          "Cylindrical",
          "cylindrical"
        ],
        [
          "alternate",
          "alternate"
        ],
        [
          "swelling",
          "swelling"
        ],
        [
          "contraction",
          "contraction"
        ],
        [
          "rounded",
          "rounded"
        ],
        [
          "prominence",
          "prominence"
        ],
        [
          "knobbly",
          "knobbly"
        ],
        [
          "rope",
          "rope"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "torose"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "torosity"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "torosus",
        "t": "full of muscle, brawny, fleshy"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin torosus (“full of muscle, brawny, fleshy”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "lena"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin torosus (“full of muscle, brawny, fleshy”).\n See torus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more torose",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most torose",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "torose (comparative more torose, superlative most torose)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Requests for attention in Latin etymologies"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1832, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 373",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold, Anatomy of the Invertebrata - Volume 1; Volume 1854, page 461",
          "text": "With the Carabidae, Hydrocanthari, and Lucanidae, the testicles consist of two extremely long, torose caeca, ( 31 ) of which each is sometimes enclosed in two special envelopes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, Edward Forbes, On the Tertiary Fluvio-marine Formation of the Isle of Wight, page 158",
          "text": "Several gradations between the smooth and the torose or embossed forins are to be met with, sometimes even on one hand-specimen of the shales; the most torose variety ( var. torosa, Q. J. G. S. loc. cit. fig. 8) occurs in the buff marl with selenite, eight or nine feet above the Rissoa-bed-weith Planorbis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881, Berthold Seemann, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign - Volume 19, page 326",
          "text": "A not uncommon state of Lysimachia stricta, without flowers, and bearing concatenate or torose bulblets in the axils, is the original of the Viscum terrestre of Linnæus .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Geological Society of America, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, page 1360",
          "text": "The pattern of a torose surface suggests that lower threads of flow sank down into plastic mud which then resisted being carried away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 62",
          "text": "In the LV the anterior part of the hinge is developed as a deep, oval, loculate trough which is framed proximally by a torose lip.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Cylindrical",
          "cylindrical"
        ],
        [
          "alternate",
          "alternate"
        ],
        [
          "swelling",
          "swelling"
        ],
        [
          "contraction",
          "contraction"
        ],
        [
          "rounded",
          "rounded"
        ],
        [
          "prominence",
          "prominence"
        ],
        [
          "knobbly",
          "knobbly"
        ],
        [
          "rope",
          "rope"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "torose"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (d4b8e84 and b863ecc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.