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Definition of Scabrously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scabrously
Literary usage of Scabrously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1858)
"Plant more or less branched and diffuse; the branches 3-5 inches long, of a
grayish aspect, Leaves 6-8 lines long and 2-2^ lines wide, scabrously hirsute ..."
2. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"... (rarely scabrously papillose), alar basilar cells ordinarily crowded and
ventricose, or flat and much more loosely reticulated than the upper cells. ..."
3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1875)
"Involucral scales (about 9), setose and scabrously hispid with white hairs, a
few large cup-headed stipitate glands intermixed on the back mostly above; ..."
4. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"five-nerved, reticulate, rugose, deep green and scabrously hairy above, paler
beneath, punctate and hairy on the nerves. Nepeta tuberosa, /,. ..."
5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"... almost to the base; bracts and bractlets scabrously ciliate on the keels;
moist sandy places on the coast cliffs ; 5. P. unilaterally. 1. ..."
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