Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SCARIOUS

Definitions of SCARIOUS

1. thin, dry, membranous
2. (botany) thin, dry, membranous, and not green
3. (zoology) scaly, scurfy

Examples of Using SCARIOUS in a Sentence

• kerrii scarious, small, basally fused to the petiole, domatia present, stomata irregularly anomocytic.
• The scarious floral bracts consist of narrow chlorophyllous bands, tinted with purple along the midrib.
• The oppositely arranged leaves are borne on fleshy, knobby petioles, their base decurrent and connate (thus forming the segments), the blades forming small, triangular tips with narrow scarious margin.
• In most genera, scarious wings develop at the outside of the fruiting perianth, allowing for dispersal by the wind (anemochory).
• This genus has green phyllaries in two to three generally equal series, lanceolate to obovate, with margins widely scarious, and a naked receptacle.
•  bellidiflora has green phyllaries in two to three generally equal series, lanceolate to obovate, with margins widely scarious (dry and membranous), and a naked receptacle.
• Leaves bi- to tri-pinnate with lobes reaching around 10mm, narrow and entire to pinnatifid, petiole broadened at base and having scarious, usually ciliate margin.
• Their margins appear white or light green, but they are actually translucent and may appear nibbled or worn away (in botanical terms, they are scarious and erose).
• The leaf sheath is scarious, often spongy, aerenchymous (spongy tissue that forms spaces of air channels), distinctly striate, it can be loose and often slips away from stem, rounded or slightly keeled towards the upper section, auricled at the mouth, smooth and glabrous.
• In common with several other plants of the genus Helichrysum, the immortelle plant possesses a large involucre of dry scale-like or scarious bracts, which preserve their appearance when dried, provided the plant be gathered in proper condition.
• The stem has 3 acute, carinate (ridged or keeled), lanceolate, (scarious) membranous, spathes (leaves of the flower bud).
• Leaves from 5-15(20) x 1-2 mm, shorter than internodes, sessile, entire, achillate, glabrous, often scabrous at margin; scarious stipules, almost setose, swollen basally in a persistent gland, purplish.
• They are dioecious (producing male or female gametes), the flowers are monoecious (having separate staminate and carpellate flowers which are always found on the same plant), in small axillary androgynous cymules, minute bracts, ovate, scarious (Dry and membranous).

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