papillate.

Covered with or possessing small rounded projections resembling papillae.

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• papillate surface

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The papillate surface felt rough.

Tiny shadows marked the papillate tissue.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.