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Webster 1913 Edition


Squarrous

Squar′rous

(skwăr′rŭs or skwŏr′-)
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Adj.
Squarrose.

Webster 1828 Edition


Squarrous

SQUARROUS

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Adj.
[Gr., scurf.] In botany, scurfy or ragged, or full of scales; rough; jagged. A squarrous calyx consists of scales very sidely divaricating; a squarrous leaf is divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it.