Category:Squarrose

Squar*rose" ( or ; 277), a. Etym: [l. squarrosus (perhaps) scurfy, Scabby.]

Defn: ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; Jagged; as: (a) (bot. & zoöl.) 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. (b) (bot.)

Defn: divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the Leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf. (c) (zoöl.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, Or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell. Squarrose- Slashed (bot.), doubly slashed, with the smaller divisions at right Angles to the others, as a leaf. Landley.