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scabs

scabs is the plural of scab.

scabs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scab.

Meaning of scab

Noun

scab (countable and uncountable, plural scabs)

  1. An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
  2. (colloquial, obsolete) The scabies.
  3. The mange, especially when it appears on sheep.
    • Scab was the terror of the sheep farmer, and the peril of his calling.1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 306
  4. (uncountable) Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
  5. Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies.
  6. Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots.

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Questions about scabs

What is scabs the plural of?
Scabs is the plural of scab.

Words near scabs in the dictionary

  1. scabrous
  2. scabrously
  3. scabrousness
  4. scabrule
  5. scabrules
  6. scabs
  7. scabweed
  8. scabweeds
  9. scabwort
  10. scacchic
  11. scacchite

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