# squarrose

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Rough or scaly.
2. 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.
3. Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
4. Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.

## Etymology
From Latin squarrosus (“(perhaps) scurfy, scabby”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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