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scariose

World English Dictionary
scarious or scariose (ˈskɛərɪəs, ˈskɛərɪˌəʊs)
 
adj
(of plant parts) membranous, dry, and brownish in colour: scarious bracts
 
[C19: from New Latin scariōsus, of uncertain origin]
 
scariose or scariose
 
adj
 
[C19: from New Latin scariōsus, of uncertain origin]

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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