scarious
adjUK /ˈskɛəɹi.əs/ · US /ˈskɛɹi.əs/
Etymology French scarieux. Compare scary.
- 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, Asa Gray, A Flora of North America, page 422:
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thin, dry, membranous
- Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 169:
- Derived terms
- scariously