Squarrose

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Squarrose \Squar*rose"\ (skw[o^]r*r[o^]s" or skw[o^]r"r[=o]s`;
     277), a. [L. squarrosus (perhaps) scurfy, scabby.]
     Ragged or full of loose scales or projecting parts; rough;
     jagged; as:
     (a) (Bot. & Zool.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating;
         having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading


         widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said
         of a calyx or stem.
     (b) (Bot.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the
         plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; -- said of a
         leaf.
     (c) (Zool.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing
         upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a
         shell.
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     {Squarrose-slashed} (Bot.), doubly slashed, with the smaller
        divisions at right angles to the others, as a leaf.
        --Lindley.
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