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scarious

adj
/ˈskɛəɹi.əs/UK/ˈskɛɹi.əs/US

Etymology

French scarieux. Compare scary.

  1. derived from scarieux

Definitions

  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

The neighborhood

Derived

scariously

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