squarrose

(skwarōs, skwə rōs)

adjective

  1. Biol. rough or scaly
  2. Bot. having tips projecting at right angles, or having spreading bracts

Origin: L squarrosus

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See squarrose in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
Botany
  1. Having rough or spreading scalelike processes.
  2. Spreading or recurved at the tip: squarrose bracts.

Origin:

Origin: Latin squarrōsus, scabby

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