squarrose

Latin squarrosus (“(perhaps) scurfy, scabby”).

squarrose (comparative more squarrose, superlative most squarrose)

1. Rough or scaly.
2. Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; said of a calyx or stem.
3. Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
4. Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.

• (rough or scaly): See Thesaurus:rough or Thesaurus:scaly

• squarrosity

squarrōse

1. vocative masculine singular of squarrōsus