Definitions for scarious

scarious scar·i·ous

Spelling: [skair-ee-uh s]
IPA: /ˈskɛər i əs/

Scarious is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in scarious (aciorssu).

Definitions for scarious

adjective

  1. thin, dry, and membranous, as certain bracts; chaffy.

Origin of scarious

1800-10; alteration of scariose New Latin scariōsus -ous

Examples for scarious

Small modified leaves, usually thin and scarious, seen in buds and cones; the flakes into which the outer bark often divides.

Involucre hemispherical, of many small imbricated dry and scarious scales shorter than the disk.

Leaves it has none, just a scarious brown bract that encloses a part of the stem.

Other species of Helichrysum and species of allied genera with scarious heads of flowers are also known as “everlastings.”

Scales of the involucre dry and scarious, white or colored, imbricated in several rows.

Receptacle convex to subulate, chaffy, the scarious chaff not embracing the smooth dorsally compressed achenes.

Scales of the broad and flat involucre imbricated, with scarious margins.

Involucral scales few, equal, in a single row, not scarious.

Stipules not scarious, leaves palmately cleft or palmately compound.

Style, if any, and stigma only one; leaves simple; no scarious bracts around the flowers.

Word Value for scarious
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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