Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Scurfy or scaly; leprous.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, scale-like or scurf-like: said of some crustaceous lichens whose thallus adheres to trees or stones like a scurf; lepidote.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Nat. Hist.) Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

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  • adjective biology Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin leprōsus; see leprous.]

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See leprous.

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Examples

  • Thallus usually composed of minute granules, these often run together to form a leprose or verrucose and rarely areolate or even subsquamulose crust, rarely disappearing; apothecia minute or small, usually adnate, with a weak and often covered exciple; hypothecium pale to dark brown; hymenium pale or tinged brown; spores hyaline, usually fusiform or dactyloid, varying from 4 - to 9-celled.

    Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker 1894

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