- Squarrose-slashed
- Squarrose Squar*rose" (skw[o^]r*r[o^]s" or skw[o^]r"r[=o]s`;
277), a. [L. squarrosus (perhaps) scurfy, scabby.]
Ragged or full of loose scales or projecting parts; rough;
jagged; as:
(a) (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) 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.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the
plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; -- said of a
leaf.
(c) (Zo["o]l.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing
upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a
shell.
[1913 Webster]
{Squarrose-slashed} (Bot.), doubly slashed, with the smaller divisions at right angles to the others, as a leaf. --Lindley. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.