scarious

American  

[skair-ee-uhs] / ˈskɛər i əs /

adjective

Botany.

1. thin, dry, and membranous, as certain bracts; chaffy.

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scarious British  

/ ˈskɛərɪˌəʊs, ˈskɛərɪəs /

adjective

1. (of plant parts) membranous, dry, and brownish in colour

   scarious bracts

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Etymology

Origin of scarious

1800–10; alteration of scariose < New Latin scariōsus < ?; -ous

Example Sentences

Involucre hemispherical, of many small imbricated dry and scarious scales shorter than the disk.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Spikelets terete, much thicker than the culm, many-flowered; scales imbricated in many or more than 3 ranks, thin-membranaceous or scarious, with a thicker midrib, usually brownish or purplish, sometimes deciduous.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Scales of the broad and flat involucre imbricated, with scarious margins.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Flowers diœcious or polygamous, collected in terminal heads, each in the axil of a scaly bract, and with 5 or 6 thin and scarious imbricated bractlets, but no proper calyx.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Anthers with short if any scarious tip, borne on the margin of or close under the disk of the stigma; pollinia horizontal.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa