| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | stri·gose |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  str  g s |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Zoology Marked with fine, close-set grooves, ridges, or streaks. 2. Botany Having stiff, straight, closely appressed hair: strigose leaves. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin strigsus, from striga, bristle, from Latin, windrow, furrow. See streig- in Appendix I.
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