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scabredity

scabredity noun: roughness (of a surface).

Noun

scabredity (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Roughness (of a surface).
    • concavities about the eyes, wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, næves, inequalities, roughness, scabredity, paleness, yellowness, and as many colours as are in a turkeycock's neck1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
    • The scabredity of the pedicels may possibly be of some mechanical assistance in the splitting of the spathe.1909 May, James E. McDonald, “The Broad-Leaved Wood Garlic or Ramsons”, in The Naturalist, number 628, page 199

Origin of scabredity

From Latin scabrēdō (“roughness of the skin, scabbiness”) + -ity.

Questions about scabredity

What does scabredity mean?
Scabredity means roughness (of a surface).
What part of speech is scabredity?
Scabredity is a noun.

Words near scabredity in the dictionary

  1. scabless
  2. scablike
  3. scabling
  4. scablings
  5. scabrate
  6. scabredity
  7. scabrid
  8. scabridity
  9. scabridly
  10. scabridous
  11. scabridulous

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