scabrid
Britishadjective
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Etymology
Origin of scabrid
C19: see scabrous
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The first glume is oblong-lanceolate, 5-nerved, pitted above the middle, with recurved margins and scabrid keels and nerves.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
In most grasses the surfaces are rough or scabrid to the touch owing to the presence of regular rows of exceedingly fine sharp pointed minute hairs.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The first and the second glumes are lanceolate acute or acuminate, 1-nerved, keeled, keel obscurely scabrid, very unequal, the first glume being always shorter than the second glume.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The leaf-blade is linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scabrid, sparsely hairy, becoming glabrous except at the base and with tubercle-based hairs on the upper surface.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
P. blackish grey and scabrid behind, rest hispid-tomentose; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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