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scariose

scariose is the alternative form of scarious.

Meaning of scarious

Adjective

scarious (comparative more scarious, superlative most scarious)

  1. thin, dry, membranous, and not green
    • A polymorphous plant, with larger (frequently three lines in diameter), more globose and racemose heads, and more scarious involucres than any form of A. vulgaris.1838, John Torrey, Asa Gray, A Flora of North America, page 422
  2. thin, dry, membranous
    • Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 169
  3. scaly, scurfy

Forms of scariose

comparativemore scariose
superlativemost scariose

Questions about scariose

What is scariose the alternative form of?
Scariose is the alternative form of scarious.

Words near scariose in the dictionary

  1. scaring the shit out of
  2. scaring up
  3. scaringly
  4. scariole
  5. scarioles
  6. scariose
  7. scarious
  8. scariously
  9. Scarisbrick
  10. Scarisbricks
  11. scarisome

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