Scarious
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈskɛəɹi.əs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Scarious is an adjective meaning (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
Meaning
(botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
More Meanings
- thin, dry, membranous
- (zoology) scaly, scurfy
Example Sentences
Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.
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.
Word Forms
- scariose
Synonyms for scarious
Depending on context, synonyms include squamous, scruffy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bracts, stipules, spathous, sclerosed, scorpioidal, scandent.
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