Scarious

//ˈskɛəɹi.əs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    thin, dry, membranous, and not green

    "A polymorphous plant, with larger (frequently three lines in diameter), more globose and racemose heads, and more scarious involucres than any form of A. vulgaris."

  2. 2
    thin, dry, membranous

    "Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning."

  3. 3
    scaly, scurfy

Synonyms

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scabbyscalyscruffysloughysquammysquamous

Example

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"A polymorphous plant, with larger (frequently three lines in diameter), more globose and racemose heads, and more scarious involucres than any form of A. vulgaris."

Etymology

French scarieux. Compare scary.

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