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Scarious vs Carious - What's the difference?

scarious | carious |

As adjectives the difference between scarious and carious

is that scarious is (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green while carious is having caries; decayed.

scarious

English

Alternative forms

* scariose

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green
  • * 1838 , John Torrey and Asa Gray, "A Flora of North America", p.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.
  • thin, dry, membranous
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.169:
    • Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.
    (Webster 1913)

    carious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having caries; decayed.
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  • * 1840 William Percivall, Hippopathology: a treatise on the disorders and lameness of the horse
    • My father's museum contained several preparations of carious teeth.