Scarious vs Scabious - What's the difference?
scarious | scabious |
(botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green
* 1838 , John Torrey and Asa Gray, "A Flora of North America", p.422:
thin, dry, membranous
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.169:
any of various herbaceous plants of the genus (taxlink).
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
* scarioseAdjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Gray head goggling fowlwise on a scarious neck, turning.