ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Of the skin: Wrinkled, drawn into wrinkles.
1623. Cockeram, Corrugated, wrinckled.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, Personal, Wks. (Bohn), II. 132. His face corrugated, especially the large nose.
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, 146. Fain To … laugh smooth Thy corrugated brow.
2. transf. Marked as with wrinkles, i.e., with parallel folds, ridges or furrows. spec. in Bot., Zool., etc.: cf. CORRUGATE a.
1666. J. Smith, Old Age, 138–9 (T.). The Pallate, is … covered over with a nervous skin, corrugated with several asperities.
1776. Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), IV. 67. Foliage brownish green … puckered and corrugated.
1844–57. G. Bird, Urin. Deposits (ed. 5), 365. When … mixed with acetic acid, the fluid part of the mucus … coagulates into a thin semi-opaque corrugated membrane.
1882. J. T. Carrington, in Zoologist, March, 103. The corrugated formation of the carapace.
b. Bent into regular curved folds or grooves; as corrugated iron, sheet iron so bent (for increase of its strength), used for making walls, roofs, sheds, and the like; also corrugated gutta percha, glass, etc.
1853. Catal. R. Agric. Soc. Show, 121. Patent Corrugated and Flexible Gutta Percha Tubing.
1856. Engineer, I. 49/2. Wrought-iron corrugated bearing plates.
1887. Times, 25 Aug., 4/5. A large corrugated iron shed has been erected.
