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Surface Relief Comparison Chart
 

Smooth to Rough: no distinct texture evident, includes smooth, rough, scabratescabrate:
surface relief—rough, having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions
, scabrid, scabridous, scabrous

Striatestriate:
surface relief—having fine, parallel lines, grooves or ridges
: having fine, parallel lines, grooves or ridges

Ridged to grooved: irregular raised, sharp or rounded, ridges in a series (ridgedridged:
surface relief—raised, thick ridges, sharp edged or rounded, usually in a series that may cover the entire surface
), linear rounded, longitudinal ridges (ribbedribbed:
surface relief—wide, prominent, linear ridges that are generally rounded and longitudinally situated on the surface
), or with longitudinal depressions (grooved), includes furrowed, sulcatesulcate:
surface relief—having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions or grooves
, caniculate

Bubbled or blistered: covered with irregular raised, hollow granules that give the surface a bubbled appearance, includes colliculate and pustularpustular:
surface relief - with small blisters or pustules
.

Glandular: covered with small, raised secretory glands, regular or irregularly shaped, translucenttranslucent:
transmitting light uniformly and diffusely
or opaque, and maybe distinctly colored gland-dotted, raised

Granular: having a grainy surface

Pitted or punctatepunctate:
surface relief - dotted with pits or with translucent, sunken glands or with colored dots, similar to pitted
: surface with small depressions in which the areas between the hollows do not take on the appearance of a true reticular net. Or, dotted with pits or with translucenttranslucent:
transmitting light uniformly and diffusely
, sunken glands or with colored dots. Includes gland-dotted, sunken foveate, scrobiculate.

Reticulate or Alveolate: raised walls or concave grooves forming a net-like surface pattern with flat, concave, or convex interspaces. Includes honeycombed, cobblestone-like, faveolatus, netted, tessellate, cancellate, and areolate.

Tuberculate or Papillate: small or large, distinct, broadbased projections (often wartywarty:
surface relief—distinct, rounded projections that are large relative to the fruit size; tuberculate, verrucose
), tapering to a rounded apex. Includes verrucoseverrucose:
surface relief—warty, covered with wart-like projections
, wartywarty:
surface relief—distinct, rounded projections that are large relative to the fruit size; tuberculate, verrucose
, tuberculose.

Wrinkledwrinkled:
surface relief—shallow, irregular folds and furrows covering the surface; appearing overall though crumpled and then spread out
: shallow, irregular folds and furrows covering the surface or appearing as though crumpled and then spread out. Includes rugoserugose:
wrinkled
, corrugate, ruguloserugose:
wrinkled
.

Veinedveined:
surface relief—lines that intersect in a vein pattern that is flush or slightly raised from the surface
: lines that intersect in a vein pattern that is flush or slightly raised from the surface. Includes nerved.

Spinyspiny:
having slender, stiff, sharp projections oriented in the general plane of the structure
: having slender, stiff, sharp projections oriented in the general plane of a structure. Includes spinose echinate, muricate, prickly, and spiculiferous.