Scabious is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 201 anagrams from letters in scabious (abciossu).
First recorded in 1595-1605; scabi(es) + -ous
"There is nothing for it but to die," said the sheep's-scabious.
Bees hummed among the scabious, and blue and sulphur butterflies hovered over the patches of wild thyme.
Whether this plant be a scabious, Thrift or Helichrysum is hard to judge from the imperfect flower of the dried specimen.
The field is full of blue scabious plants, Wild Parsley and tall grass—getting brown now in the sun.
When she complained of not being well, the sheep's-scabious and the bell-flower said that it was just the same with them.
"And I understand that it is all up with a poor sheep's-scabious," said the sheep's-scabious and died then and there.
The scabious meant "sorrow and desolation," and the forget-me-not "Do not forget me."
The grass was all but hidden under a blue blur of scabious, and the cobwebs in the hedges were elaborately studded with dew-drops.
In some of the species of scabious, the florets of the outer ring resemble those of the ray in flowers of the Composit.
The scabious, or Devils bit, was regarded with great superstition.