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scabish

scabish is the alternative form of scabious.

Meaning of scabious

Noun

scabious (plural scabiouses)

  1. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Scabiosa.
    • The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 128]
  2. Any of several plants of the genus Knautia.

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Questions about scabish

What is scabish the alternative form of?
Scabish is the alternative form of scabious.

Words near scabish in the dictionary

  1. scabiosa
  2. scabiosas
  3. scabiosity
  4. scabious
  5. scabiouses
  6. scabish
  7. scabland
  8. scablands
  9. scabless
  10. scablike
  11. scabling

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