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RIDGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ridged mean?
• RIDGED (adjective)
The adjective RIDGED has 1 sense:
1. having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship
Familiarity information: RIDGED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship
Classified under:
Participial adjectives
Synonyms:
carinate; carinated; keeled; ridged
Context example:
a carinate sepal
Participle:
ridge (form into a ridge)
Context examples
On the eastern side of this plain the country-side sloped upwards, thick with vines in summer, but now ridged with the brown bare enclosures.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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