scabrid
Britishadjective
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Etymology
Origin of scabrid
C19: see scabrous
Example Sentences
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The first glume is rigidly coriaceous, gradually narrowed from a villous base to an erect scabrid awn, 1-nerved.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-blade is narrow, linear, tapering to a fine point, convolute in bud, scabrid above and smooth below, with a minutely serrate, very narrow, hyaline margin, 1 to 10 inches long and 1/12 inch broad.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-blade is flat, narrowly linear-lanceolate, smooth or scabrid, acuminate, base narrowed, 1 to 3-1/2 inches long and 1/16 to 1/8 inch wide.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-blades are erect, flat, slightly glaucous, linear, narrowed to long capillary tips, 5 to 12 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch broad, with prominent nerves and scabrid margins.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The second glume is hyaline, about one and half times as long as the first, oblong elliptic, minutely 2-lobed at the apex, with a minute mucro between, 1-nerved with a scabrid keel.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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