scarious
/skair-ee-uhs/US // ˈskɛər i əs //UK // (ˈskɛərɪəs) //
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Botany.
- : thin, dry, and membranous, as certain bracts; chaffy.
Examples
A small concavo-convex scarious appendage, fixed behind the wings at their base, in many Diptera.
Small modified leaves, usually thin and scarious, seen in buds and cones; the flakes into which the outer bark often divides.
Other species of Helichrysum and species of allied genera with scarious heads of flowers are also known as “everlastings.”
Style, if any, and stigma only one; leaves simple; no scarious bracts around the flowers.
Stipules not scarious, leaves palmately cleft or palmately compound.
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