squarrose
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squarrose
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From Latin squarrosus (“(perhaps) scurfy, scabby”).
adjective more squarrose · most squarrose
- Rough or scaly.
- Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; said of a calyx or stem.
- Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
- Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.
Similar: scaly
