verrucose
adjective
verrucose is an adjective meaning “Covered in warts; warty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-R-U-C-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does verrucose mean?
adjective
- 1
Covered in warts; warty
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of verrucose
- more verrucose comparative
- most verrucose superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is verrucose?
Verrucose appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does verrucose come from?
Borrowed from Late Latin verrūcōsus, from Latin verrūca (“wart”). By surface analysis, verruca + -ose. Doublet of verrucous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).