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語源

French scarieux. Compare scary.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈskɛəɹi.əs/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈskɛɹi.əs/
• 韻: -ɛəɹi.əs

形容詞

scarious (comparative more scarious, superlative most scarious)

1. (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green
   • 1838, John Torrey, Asa Gray, A Flora of North America, page 422:

     A polymorphous plant, with larger (frequently three lines in diameter), more globose and racemose heads, and more scarious involucres than any form of A. vulgaris.

2. thin, dry, membranous
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 169:

     Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.

3. (zoology) scaly, scurfy

同意語

• (scaly): squamous; see also Thesaurus:scaly
• (scurfy): scruffy; see also Thesaurus:scabby

派生語

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