scabrid
Britishadjective
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Etymology
Origin of scabrid
C19: see scabrous
Example Sentences
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P. corky, plane, base gibbous, scabrid, zoned and radiately rugulose, yellow then dingy; g. thin, distant, forked, anastomosing behind, citrin then umber.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
The flowering glume is awned, strongly 5-nerved, nerves scabrid and ciliate, the lateral nerves being marginal.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-blade is narrow, linear, acute, rigid, flat, glaucous, smooth or scaberulous, with margins scabrid and ciliated with tubercle-based hairs especially towards the base, and varying in length from 2 to 15 inches.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The spikes are whorled, about 3 inches or so in length, naked towards the base to about one-fourth of its length, the rachis is fine, filiform, scabrid.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The second glume is lanceolate, acuminate, equal to or a little longer than the third glume with a scabrid keel.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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