adjective
- having many cracks, fissures, or chinks
Usage: technical; rare
Examples
- The rimous bark of the old oak tree provided shelter for insects.
- After years of weathering, the stone wall became rimous and unstable.
- The rimous surface of the dried mud showed the effects of the drought.
- Geologists studied the rimous rock formations in the canyon.
- The rimous leather had developed deep cracks from age and exposure.