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 < ?; see -ous

Example Sentences

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

Involucre dry and scarious, white or colored, imbricated.

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

Calyx 5-cleft, with the concave lobes strongly keeled, enclosing the depressed fruit, at length appendaged with a broad and continuous horizontal scarious wing.

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

Calyx 5-parted, persistent and enclosing the depressed fruit in its base; its divisions at length horizontally winged on the back, the wings forming a broad and circular scarious border.

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

Indusium covering the sporangia, flat or flattish, scarious, orbicular and peltate at the centre, or round-kidney-shaped and fixed either centrally or by the sinus, opening all round the margin.

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