torose, a. Nat. Hist.
(tɒˈrəʊs)
[ad. L. torōs-us, f. torus bulge, brawn: see -ose.]
Bulging, swollen, protuberant: said of an approximately cylindrical body swollen here and there.
| 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xxii. (1765) 229 The Pericarpium is..torose. 1785 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxiii. (1794) 322 Radish has a cylindric, jointed, torose or swelling silique. 1829 Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 461 Caps[ules] subglobose torose hispid. |
So † toˈrosity Obs. rare—0, torose condition.
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., Torosity (torositas), fleshiness, fatnesse, brawninesse. 1727 Bailey vol. II, Torosity, Fatness, Grossness. |