Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with small, scurfy scales.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, covered with scurfy scales of scaly spots; leprous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having a
coat ofscurfy 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
[Greek lepidōtos, scaly, from lepis, lepid-, scale.]
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Ancient Greek λεπιδωτός (lepidōtos, "covered with scales").
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