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Dictionary: sca·bi·ous1   (skā'bē-əs, skăb'ē-) pronunciation
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adj.
  1. Of or relating to scabies.
  2. Having scabs.

[From Latin scabiōsus, mangy. See scabiosa.]


sca·bi·ous2 (skā'bē-əs) pronunciation
n.
Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa, especially S. atropurpurea, having opposite leaves and variously colored flower heads that are subtended by an involucre. Also called scabiosa.

[Middle English scabiose, from Medieval Latin (herba) scabiōsa, (herb) for scabies, scabious. See scabiosa.]


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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: scabious
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Perennial scabious (Scabiosa caucasica)
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Perennial scabious (Scabiosa caucasica) (credit: Valerie Finnis)
Any of about 100 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants that make up the genus Scabiosa (family Dipsaceae), native to temperate Eurasia, the Mediterranean, and mountains of eastern Africa. Some are important garden plants, including the southern European annual pincushion flower (S. atropurpurea), also called sweet scabious, mourning bride, or garden scabious. All species have leaf rosettes at the base of the plant, and leafy stems. Flower heads have an outer ring of female flowers and a circle of leaflike bracts below. Devil's bit scabious belongs to the genus Succisa (see bluebonnet).

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Medical Dictionary: sca·bi·ous
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(skā'bē-əs, skăb'ē-)
adj.

Of or relating to scabies.

WordNet: scabious
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa
  Synonym: scabiosa

 
 
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