SQUARROSE

squarrose. Squarrose, a. ragged, scaly, scurfy

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Squar‐rose″ (skwŏr‐rŏs″ or skwŏr″rōs′; 277), a. [[L. squarrosus (perhaps) scurfy, scabby.]] Ragged, or full of loose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as: (a) (Bot. & Zoöl.) 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) (Zoöl.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; — said of a shell. Squarrose-slashed (Bot.), doubly slashed, with the smaller divisions at right angles to the others, as a leaf. Lindley.