Jan. 6th, 2012

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scrobiculate (skroh-BIK-yuh-lit) - adj., scored with furrows or pits, furrowed, pitted.


You might think this would apply only to the furrowed sense, what with it being borrowed from Latin scrobiculus, diminutive of scrobis, trench, but somehow the pits snuck under the semantic blanket as well.

---L.

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