verrucose, a.
(vɛruːˈkəʊs)
[ad. L. verrūcōsus, f. verrūca verruca.]
1. Covered or furnished with, full of, verrucæ or wart-like excrescences or growths. Now Nat. Hist. and Path.
| 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 181 A verrucose stone found near a petrifying Spring. 1721 Bailey, Verrucose, Full of Warts. 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 273 Verrucose,.. having several verrucæ. 1828 Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 68 Tritonia Hombergii... Body oblong, subtetragonous, verrucose above. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 527 Branches rather stout,..verrucose. 1883 Le Conte & G. H. Horn Classif. Coleoptera N. Amer. 242 Head roughly granulate, or verrucose. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 816 The skin is covered by epidermis, in some parts thin and delicate, in others thick, horny, and verrucose. |
| fig. 1823 Blackw. Mag. XIV. 311 What designation could be more apt to mark the scurvy, verrucose, uneven,..and repulsive style of this man? |
2. Bot. Studded with small warty swellings or protuberances; tubercular.
| 1802 R. Hall Dict. Bot. Terms 194 Verrucose,..warty. 1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 79 Seeds numerous, small, oval, verrucose, yellowish. 1874 Cooke Fungi 77 The sporidia in many cases are large, reticulated, echinulate or verrucose, and mostly somewhat globose. 1887 W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 292 The verrucose epispore distinguishes this from its congeners. |
Hence
verruˈcoseness, ‘fulness of warts’.