English Explanatory Dictionary

squarrose

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  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.

Word forms

squarrose more squarrose most squarrose

Etymology

From Latin squarrosus (“(perhaps) scurfy, scabby”).

Synonyms

scaly rough

Derived words

squarrosely squarrosity
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