adjective
- having an irregularly eroded, toothed, or jagged edge or margin
Usage: commonly used in botany and biology to describe leaf or petal edges
Examples
- The erose leaves of the plant had small, irregular notches along their edges.
- Botanists identified the species by its distinctive erose margin on the petals.
- The rock face showed an erose surface worn away by centuries of wind and water.
- The erose coastline created many small coves and inlets.
- Under the microscope, the erose texture of the mineral was clearly visible.