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scarious

/ˈskɛəɹi.əs/US/ˈskɛɹi.əs/

scarious adjective: thin, dry, membranous, and not green.

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

Synonyms of scarious

Forms of scarious

comparativemore scarious
superlativemost scarious
alternative formscariose

Origin of scarious

French scarieux. Compare scary.

Words formed from scarious

Words that rhyme with scarious

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Questions about scarious

What does scarious mean?
Scarious means thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
What part of speech is scarious?
Scarious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce scarious?
Scarious is pronounced /ˈskɛəɹi.əs/ (UK).

Words near scarious in the dictionary

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

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