Definition of Scrobe

1. a groove [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrobe

scritching
scrive
scrived
scrivened
scrivener
scrivener's palsy
scriveners
scrives
scriving
scroag
scroags
scrobble
scrobbled
scrobbles
scrobbling
scrobe (current term)
scrobes
scrobicula
scrobiculae
scrobicular
scrobiculate
scrobiculated
scrobiculus cordis
scrod
scroddled
scroddles
scroddling
scrode
scrods

Literary usage of Scrobe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rhynchophora Or Weevils of North Eastern America by Willis Stanley Blatchley, Charles William Leng (1916)
"2, B, lower view of same; h, antennal groove or scrobe; the gular suture is seen as a vertical line between the genx. (After Hopkins. ..."

2. The Satires of A. Persius Flaccus by Persius, John Conington, Henry Nettleship (1893)
"... the ground is the supposed partner of the secret. The allusion, of course, is to the story of Midas. [' Nee clam nee cum scrobe, nusquam ?' Jahn, 1868. ..."

3. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1900)
"... founded on (a) the relation between the upper and lower edge of the rostral scrobe, in the one case the lower edge protruding outwards further than the ..."

4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1906)
""but the head of the soldier is more elongated, the antennal scrobe shallower, the thorax smoother, ..."

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