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Scorious vs Scarious - What's the difference?

scorious | scarious |

As adjectives the difference between scorious and scarious

is that scorious is scoriaceous while scarious is (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green.

scorious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • scoriaceous
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    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)