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Scarious vs Scabious - What's the difference?

scarious | scabious |

As adjectives the difference between scarious and scabious

is that scarious is (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green while scabious is having scabs.

As a noun scabious is

any of various herbaceous plants of the genus (taxlink).

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)

    scabious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having scabs
  • of or pertaining to scabies
  • Noun

    (es)
  • any of various herbaceous plants of the genus (taxlink).
  • Derived terms

    * sweet scabious