Meaning & use
Erose
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Having an irregular, jagged edge, as if gnawed or nibbled.
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The leaf's erose margin suggested it had been damaged by insects.
Botanists noted the erose edges of the unusual specimen's petals.
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"Erose" comes from the Latin erosus, "gnawed away," the same root that gives us "erosion," though the two words are used in very different contexts.
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