After the incident with the gasoline, Noel’s burnt arm remained scabrous and was susceptible to infections.
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Scabrous
//ˈskeɪbɹəs//
Synonyms for "scabrous" (128 found)
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Adjective(24 words)
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13 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- грапав adj (covered with scales or scabs; very coarse or rough)
- отвратителен adj (disgusting, repellent, repulsive, vile)
French
1 entries- scabreux adj (disgusting, repellent, repulsive, vile)
Galician
1 entries- escabroso adj (disgusting, repellent, repulsive, vile)
German
1 entries- schuppig adj (covered with scales or scabs; very coarse or rough)
Italian
2 entries- scabro adj (covered with scales or scabs; very coarse or rough)
- scabroso adj (covered with scales or scabs; very coarse or rough)
Latin
1 entries- scabrōsus adj (covered with scales or scabs; very coarse or rough)
Latvian
4 entries- grumbuļains adj (covered with scales or scabs; very coarse or rough)
- nelīdzens adj (covered with scales or scabs; very coarse or rough)
- neķītrs adj (disgusting, repellent, repulsive, vile)
- raupjš adj (covered with scales or scabs; very coarse or rough)
Māori
1 entries- whekewheke adj (covered with scales or scabs; very coarse or rough)
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I was ſurpriz'd to ſee Mars continue quite round, though hardly, to Appearance, disjoin'd from the ſcabrous Edge of the Moon; but that Inſtant I thought it began to loſe its Figure.—Clouds.
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Lumbricus ſcaber. The rough Lumbricus. The Sea-worm. This ſpecies grows to a foot, or more, in length, and to the thickneſs of a man's finger. It is of a pale red colour, and is compoſed of a number of rings or annular joints, as it were, in the manner of the other; but the ſkin is ſcabrous, and all theſe rings are covered with little prominences, ſo that it is extreamly rough to the touch.
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[Helianthus] frondosus, […] stem smooth below, leaves lance ovate, remotely and acutely serrate, scabrous above, paler and sub-scabrous beneath, 3-nerved: peduncles scabrous; petiole ciliate; calyx squarose, undulate, leafy, ciliate: rays 8-flowered.
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