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English
Etymology
From scoria + -ous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
scorious (comparative more scorious, superlative most scorious)
- scoriaceous
1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:For by the fire they omit not only many drossie and scorious parts, but whatsoever they had received either from the earth or Loadstone;