Chiefly Bot. and Entomol. Covered or appearing to be covered with a fine dust or powder.

Biology. Designating or having small rounded projections, as from a plate of an echinoderm.

transferred. Of vegetable growths: Resembling scurf, scurfy.

Covered with powder or dust, dusty; (chiefly Mycology and Entomology) having a powdery or dusty appearance.

Botany. Of roots, etc.: Consisting or formed of clustered grains; granulated.

Covered or appearing to be covered with powder; mealy.

Having the texture or appearance of woollen cloth; felted.

Somewhat scabrous.

= scabrid, adj.

Somewhat scabrous.

Resembling sugar. Botany. Covered with shining grains like those of sugar (Cent. Dict. 1891).

Having the texture or appearance of woollen cloth or felt; = pannose, adj.