Meanings
comparative more scrobiculate · superlative most scrobiculate · alternative scrobiculated
- biologyHaving numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted.
The man who had been standing in the doorway stepped forward to greet them. No pheretrer he! His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia.
1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2
Origin
From Latin scrobicula /scrobiculus + -ate, diminutive of scrobis (“a ditch or trench”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French scrobiculé
- scrobiculéTranslations
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