a. [ad. L. verrūcōsus, f. verrūca VERRUCA.]
1. Covered or furnished with, full of, verruccæ 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 Verrucoseness, ‘fulness of warts.’
1727. Bailey (vol. II.).
