What's the difference between knurly and misshapen?
Knurly
Definition:
(superl.) Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.
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Misshapen
Definition:
(a.) Having a bad or ugly form.
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(1) Capote clearly identified with this "chunky, misshapen child-man".
(2) These cells included many abnormal forms such as giant cells and misshapen cells.
(3) A sixfold increase (P less than 0.0001) in hepatic iron and a fivefold increase in lysosomal iron (P less than 0.01) was observed after iron loading; as a result, hepatocyte lysosomes became enlarged and misshapen.
(4) Findings common to both and typical for this chromosome aberration include a narrow protruding forehead, hypertelorism, non-horizontal position of the eyes, ptosis, strabismus, broad root, and short upturned tip of thenose, carp mouth, receding chin, misshapen ears, simian creases, and severe mental retardation.
(5) Because major components of the craniofacial complex were generally present, although misshapen, changes in the atelencephalic skull seem to be deformations rather than malformations.
(6) Walking around Forgemasters it is impossible not to be stirred: great misshapen lumps of scrap steel, red heat shining through furnace doors, huge presses, and a machining hall where the black crust is cut from immense forgings to produce shiny precision-engineered parts.
(7) It was "misshapen" by torture, bore signs of beatings, and had a fractured skull, he told the committee.
(8) The overall histological picture consisted of a fairly repetitive pattern dominated by an exuberant and diffuse hyperplasia of frequently misshapen and poorly outlined follicles, associated with a striking proliferation of capillary vessels and a very consistent amount of plasma cells both extending in the follicular and interfollicular areas.
(9) The gross anomalies involved the smaller size of the club-foot talus and the increased medial deviation of a stunted, misshapen head and neck region.
(10) The first and second pairs of valvulae were often misshapen and reduced in sclerotization and length, or even fused with the third valvulae.
(11) A newborn female is described who exhibited a characteristic facial dysmorphology including deep-set eyes, broad nasal bridge, small mouth, high-arched and narrow palate, severly receding mandible and misshapen ears; constant flexion of the proximal interphalangeal joints, and short distal phalanges and nails of fingers; a congenital heart defect; marked muscular hypotonia, motor and growth retardation.
(12) Although differentiated, most tissues are morphologically misshapen.
(13) The abnormalities fell into two main classes: misshapen or bulging eggs and eggs coated with a superficial layer of amorphous calcium, variously termed dusted, white banded, chalky or pink eggs.
(14) Newly reverted cells were misshapen and osmotically sensitive.
(15) Their outer segments were at first short, wide, and misshapen; only as they grew longer and narrower did they become straight and properly aligned.
(16) Admittedly he does now resemble a boiled sweet that was lost down the back of the sofa only to be unearthed months later, fuzzy and misshapen.
(17) The increased GalTase activity on t-bearing spermatids is not due to decreased hydrolysis of the GalTase substrates, and is appropriately localized over the acrosomal region, even on misshapen sperm heads occasionally seen in t-sperm populations.
(18) Flickerman functions as the grotesque face of the elite, with bright blue hair and a face misshapen by frequent visits to the plastic surgeon.
(19) ); eye (lens misshapen or severely thinned, optic cup incompletely invaginated); diencephalon (epiphysis bifurcated or off-center, supernumerary outgrowths); cardiovascular structures (atrium and major blood vessels enlarged); and tailbud (curled into hindgut: ourentery).
(20) Significant dental findings were severe enamel hypoplasia, conical and misshapen teeth, hypodontia, and impactions.