CORRUGATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corrugated mean? 

• CORRUGATED (adjective)
  The adjective CORRUGATED has 1 sense:

1. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges

  Familiarity information: CORRUGATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRUGATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges

Context example:

the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated

Similar:

furrowed; rugged (having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface)

 Context examples 

The lesion consists of a white patch that is often corrugated or hairy.

(Hairy Leukoplakia of Tongue, NCI Thesaurus)

A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming pool, and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers—but outside Gatsby's window it began to rain again so we stood in a row looking at the corrugated surface of the Sound.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)