Meaning of scabredity | Babel Free

Definitions

Roughness (of a surface).

obsolete, rare, uncountable

Examples

“concavities about the eyes, wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, næves, inequalities, roughness, scabredity, paleness, yellowness, and as many colours as are in a turkeycock's neck”

“The scabredity of the pedicels may possibly be of some mechanical assistance in the splitting of the spathe.”

“In the description the lemma is described as „exceeding the glumes“, which is often the case in A. adscensionis, the awns are described as „barbatae“, an unusual denotation of the scabredity of the awns.”

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