Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, slightly scabrous or roughened. See scabrous.

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Examples

  • Spikes are 1 to 1-1/2 inches long with fine, angular rachis, scaberulous in the edges.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _first glume_ is lanceolate, acute and awned between two teeth, 7-nerved and scaberulous.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _spikelets_ are ovate, acuminate, binate (sometimes solitary or three) on a common finely filiform stalk, one long and the other short pedicelled, pale or yellowish green, or purple; pedicels are angular, scabrid or scaberulous, slightly swollen at the top and sometimes with setose hairs also.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, base narrowed into a petiole, scaberulous on both the surfaces.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The margins of this glume are membranous and somewhat scaberulous.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _leaf-blades_ are linear, finely acuminate, slightly broadened and rounded at the base, keeled, the upper surface scaberulous and with a few scattered long hairs especially towards the base, smooth or slightly scaberulous below, 1 to 9 inches by 1/12 to 1/4 inch.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _second glume_ is narrower and longer than the first, shortly awned 1-nerved, 2-toothed, obscurely scaberulous and encircling the third glume.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _leaf-blade_ is very long 1/6 to 1/4 inch broad, auricled at the base, narrowed into very finely acuminate or capillary tips midrib prominent; scaberulous on both the surfaces and with long hairs on the auricles.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _first glume_ is linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved, scaberulous along the nerve.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _third glume_ is narrow, convolute, scaberulous, 3-nerved awned with a shortly bearded callus, the awn is three branched articulate to the short column at the base about 3/4 inch long with the middle branch slightly longer than the other two; _palea_ is minute.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

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