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scabredity (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Roughness (of a surface).
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     concavities about the eyes, wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, næves, inequalities, roughness, scabredity, paleness, yellowness, and as many colours as are in a turkeycock's neck

   • 1909 May, James E. McDonald, “The Broad-Leaved Wood Garlic or Ramsons”, in The Naturalist‎, number 628, page 199:

     The scabredity of the pedicels may possibly be of some mechanical assistance in the splitting of the spathe.

   • 1927, Jan Theodoor Henrard, “A Critical Revision of the Genus Aristida”, in Mededeelingen van's Rijks Herbarium‎, volume 54A, number 1, page 265:

     In the description the lemma is described as „exceeding the glumes“, which is often the case in A. adscensionis, the awns are described as „barbatae“, an unusual denotation of the scabredity of the awns.

参照

• “scabredity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.