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scarious

[skair-ee-uhs]

adjective Botany.

thin, dry, and membranous, as certain bracts; chaffy.

Origin:
1800–10; alteration of scariose < Neo-Latin scariōsus < ?; see -ous

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sexual form of a haploid plant in the alternation of generations

variation in an organism's life cycle of dissimilar reproductive forms

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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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