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Crevice vs Rimose - What's the difference?

crevice | rimose |

As a noun crevice

is a narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

As a verb crevice

is to crack; to flaw.

As a adjective rimose is

having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices.

crevice

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
  • * Tennyson
    • The mouse, / Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peered about.
  • * William Butler Yeats
    • I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and not a pocket, not a crevice , of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.

    Verb

    (crevic)
  • To crack; to flaw.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    rimose

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices.
    • the rimose head of a mushroom
    a tree with rimose bark

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