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Webster 1913 Edition
Scarious
{
Sca′ri-ose
,Sca′ri-ous
, }Adj.
(Bot.)
Thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
Gray.
Webster 1828 Edition
Scarious
SCA'RIOUS
,Adj.
SCA'RIOUS
,Adj.
Definition 2024
scarious
scarious
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
scarious (comparative more scarious, superlative most scarious)
- (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green
- 1838, John Torrey and Asa Gray, "A Flora of North America", p.422:
- 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.
- 1838, John Torrey and Asa Gray, "A Flora of North America", p.422:
- thin, dry, membranous
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.169:
- Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.169: