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Definition of 'scarious'English
Alternative forms
* scariose
Adjective
( en-adj)
(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.
thin, dry, membranous
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.169:
- Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.
( Webster 1913)
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