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scoracious

scoracious is the misspelling of scoriaceous.

Meaning of scoriaceous

Adjective

scoriaceous (comparative more scoriaceous, superlative most scoriaceous)

  1. Of, relating to, or producing scoria; composed of scoria.
    • On the further side it is more elevated, of a bare and desolate aspect, with a slight depression marking the position of the crater. From this part descends a black scoriaceous tract; very rugged, and covered with a scanty vegetation of scattered bushes as far down as the sea. This is the lava of...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 5

Questions about scoracious

What is scoracious the misspelling of?
Scoracious is the misspelling of scoriaceous.

Words near scoracious in the dictionary

  1. scopulous
  2. Scopus
  3. Scopwick
  4. scopy
  5. scorable
  6. scoracious
  7. scorbic
  8. Scorbus
  9. scorbut
  10. scorbute
  11. scorbutic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scoracious (page history and authors); scoriaceous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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