rug-, rugo- +
(Greek > Latin: wrinkle, to make full of wrinkles; ridge, fold)
						arroyo (Spanish from Latin)					
					
						1. A small steep-sided watercourse or gulch with a nearly flat floor: usually dry except after heavy rains.
2. Etymology: "a watercourse, a dry streambed"; from about 1845, a California word, from American Spanish, from Spanish, "rivulet, small stream"; from Latin arrugia, "shaft" or "pit in a gold mine"; apparently a compound of ad-, "to" + ruga, "wrinkle".
									2. Etymology: "a watercourse, a dry streambed"; from about 1845, a California word, from American Spanish, from Spanish, "rivulet, small stream"; from Latin arrugia, "shaft" or "pit in a gold mine"; apparently a compound of ad-, "to" + ruga, "wrinkle".
						corrugate, corrugates; corrugated; corrugating (verbs)					
					
						1. To fold into parallel ridges and troughs, or to fold something; such as, a sheet of cardboard into parallel ridges and troughs.
2. Etymology: from Latin corrugatus, past participle of corrugare, "to wrinkle"; from com-, cor-, "together, with" + rugare. "to wrinkle".
									2. Etymology: from Latin corrugatus, past participle of corrugare, "to wrinkle"; from com-, cor-, "together, with" + rugare. "to wrinkle".
						corrugated (adjective)					
					
						A reference to a shape of alternating parallel grooves and ridges: "Cardboard boxes maintain their shape because they are reinforced with a corrugated layer inside the two flat-outer surfaces."					
									
						corrugation					
					
						Formed or shaped into wrinkles, folds, or into alternating ridges and grooves.					
									
						corrugator					
					
						1. A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.
2. A muscle that draws together the skin, causing it to wrinkle.
									2. A muscle that draws together the skin, causing it to wrinkle.
						irrugate					
					
						To wrinkle.					
									
						ruga (s), rugae (pl)					
					
						A fold, crease, ridge, or wrinkle; for example, mucous membrane.					
									
						ruga gastrica, rugae of the stomach					
					
						Characteristic folds of the gastric mucosa; especially, evident when the stomach is contracted.					
									
						rugae of gallbladder, mucosal folds of the gallbladder					
					
						The interlacing folds of the mucosa that produce a honeycomb appearance in the interior of the gallbladder.					
									
						rugate					
					
						Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.					
									
						rugoscopy					
					
						The observation and study of the patterns of the grooves, wrinkles, and ridges (rugae) of the palate to identify individual patterns.					
									
						rugose					
					
						1. Having many wrinkles or creases; ridged or wrinkled; deeply wrinkled.
2. A reference to, or description of, a leaf or other plant part that has a surface of alternating depressions and ridges.
									2. A reference to, or description of, a leaf or other plant part that has a surface of alternating depressions and ridges.
						rugosity					
					
						A wrinkled state or condition.					
									
						rugous, rugose					
					
						Wrinkled; marked by wrinkles.					
									
						rugulose					
					
						Finely and irregularly wrinkled; such as, certain mushroom caps.					
									Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "wrinkle, wrinkled; fold": pharc-; rhytid-.
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