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English
Etymology
French scarieux. Compare scary.
Adjective
scarious (comparative more scarious, superlative most scarious)
- (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green[1]
1838, John Torrey, Asa Gray, A Flora of North America, page 422: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.
- thin, dry, membranous
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 169:Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.
- (zoology) scaly, scurfy
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