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RUGA (rugae)
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Irregular inflected form: rugae
Dictionary entry overview: What does ruga mean?
• RUGA (noun)
The noun RUGA has 1 sense:
1. (anatomy) a fold or wrinkle or crease
Familiarity information: RUGA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(anatomy) a fold or wrinkle or crease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Context example:
rugae of the stomach
Hypernyms ("ruga" is a kind of...):
fold; plica (a folded part (as in skin or muscle))
Domain category:
anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)
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