What does scarious mean?
Scarious means (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
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/ˈskɛəɹi.əs/ · adjective
(botany) 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.
Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.
Use scarious when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scarious means (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
Common synonyms include squamous, scruffy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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