RIBBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ribbed mean? 

• RIBBED (adjective)
  The adjective RIBBED has 2 senses:

1. furnished or strengthened with ribs

2. (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture

  Familiarity information: RIBBED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIBBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furnished or strengthened with ribs

Similar:

costate (having ribs)

riblike (resembling a rib)

Antonym:

ribless (having no ribs or no visible ribs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture

Synonyms:

costate; ribbed

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

 Context examples 

Look at the band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That smooth bark and those small, ribbed leaves seemed familiar to my eyes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You were wearing, I may remark, the same pair of ribbed tennis shoes which are at the present moment upon your feet.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By Saint Ives! it is true,” cried Sir Bertrand, striding across to the recess where the ungainly, funnel-shaped, thick-ribbed engines were standing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In similar ways she had experienced unusual feelings when she looked at wild animals in the menagerie, or when she witnessed a storm of wind, or shuddered at the bright-ribbed lightning.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The researchers suspected that mussels, by paving the marsh surface with their ribbed shells, attracted burrowing crabs that excavate underground water storage compartments.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)

I had an idea of its direction, though on my former visit I had not been able to get admission to it; so I led the way, and after a few wrong turnings found myself opposite a low, arched oaken door, ribbed with iron bands.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was a pale-green foreground of feathery vegetation, which sloped upwards and ended in a line of cliffs dark red in color, and curiously ribbed like some basaltic formations which I have seen.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, new research shows that a mutualistic relationship — where two organisms benefit from each other's activities — between ribbed mussels and salt marsh grasses may play a critical role in helping salt marshes bounce back from extreme climate events such as drought.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)