squarrose
adjEtymology From Latin squarrosus (“(perhaps) scurfy, scabby”).
1
Rough or scaly.
2
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.
3
Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
4
Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.
- Derived terms
- squarrosely, squarrosity