Definition of "erose" []

• Irregularly notched, toothed, or indented: erose leaves. (adjective)

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• "It gets harder and harder, until you're trying to guess what "erose" means ( "jagged", apparently)."
• "I came slowly around to the erose, pitted fins, to look across a firebared space at the new ship."
• "The _first glume_ is very short less than 1/5 inch, broadly oblong, nerveless, hyaline, broadly truncate and erose at the apex."