scarious

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scarious

  • /ˈskɛəɹi.əs/ UK
  • /ˈskɛɹi.əs/ US

Rhymes with -ɛəɹi.əs

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French scarieux. Compare scary.

adjective more scarious · most scarious · scariose

  1. 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.
  2. thin, dry, membranous Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.
  3. scaly, scurfy

Similar: squamous, scruffy

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