squarrose

Meaning

Adjective

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

Origin

• Latin squarrosus ("(perhaps) scurfy, scabby").