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Squarrose

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Rough or scaly.
  2. 2
    Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; said of a calyx or stem.
  3. 3
    Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
  4. 4
    Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.

Etymology

From Latin squarrosus (“(perhaps) scurfy, scabby”).

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