scabrid
Britishadjective
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Etymology
Origin of scabrid
C19: see scabrous
Example Sentences
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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.
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 inflorescence is 4 to 8 inches long; the main rachis is angular, grooved, scabrid on the ridges.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-blade is soft, narrowly linear, finely acute, acuminate or pungent, somewhat glaucous, conspicuously distichous at the base of the stem and, in non-flowering branches, scabrid along the margins.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The first and the second glumes are empty, narrow-linear, purple, scabrid, 1-nerved and awned; awns are capillary, varying in length from 1/3 to 1/2 inch.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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