資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Squarrose \Squar*rose"\ (? or ?; 277), a. [L. squarrosus
   (perhaps) scurfy, scabby.]
   Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough;
   jagged; as:
   (a) (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) 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.
   (b) (Bot.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the
       plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a
       leaf.
   (c) (Zo["o]l.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing
       upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a
       shell.

   {Squarrose-slashed} (Bot.), doubly slashed, with the smaller
      divisions at right angles to the others, as a leaf.
      --Landley.