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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having or covered with scales or small projections and rough to the touch. See Synonyms at rough.
  2. adj. Difficult to handle; knotty: a scabrous situation.
  3. adj. Dealing with scandalous or salacious material: a scabrous novel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Rough; rugged; having sharp points or little asperities. Specifically, in zoology and botany, rough or roughened as if scabby, as a surface; covered with little points or asperities: as, shagreen is the scabrous skin of a shark; especially, rough to the touch from hardly visible granules or minute angular elevations with which a surface, as of an insect or a plant, is covered. Also scabrate.
  2. Harsh; unmusical.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. covered with scales or scabs, or otherwise extremely rough
  2. adj. having indecent sexual content or connotation, rough
  3. adj. figuratively harsh; unmusical

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
  2. adj. rare Fig.: Harsh; unmusical.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
  2. adj. dealing with salacious or indecent material

Etymologies

  1. Latin scabrosus. (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin scabrōsus, from scaber, scabr-, scurfy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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