scarious

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective thin, dry, membranous, and not green
2. adjective thin, dry, membranous
3. adjective scaly, scurfy

Similar words

bracts stipules spathous sclerosed scorpioidal scandent foliose lepidote acanthocladous vaginated

Often followed by

margins and bracts at on margin sheaths in or