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Scabrous   Listen
adjective
Scabrous  adj.  
1.
Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
2.
Fig.: Harsh; unmusical. (R.) "His verse is scabrous and hobbling."





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"Scabrous" Quotes from Famous Books



... garrison. Then, naturally, he proceeded to the account of his own youthful conquests. The Colonel had evidently been a devil with the ladies, for he knew all about the forgotten ballet-dancers of the seventies, and related with gusto a number of scabrous tales. ...
— The Hero • William Somerset Maugham
... tapering from about the middle towards the top, finely acuminate, and also narrowing towards the base into the stout midrib, margins with fine long hairs at the base, 6 to 18 inches by 1/10 to 1/3 inch, scabrous above ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar


Words linked to "Scabrous" :   biology, unsmooth, lepidote, biological science, leprose, scaly


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