strigousadj.
/ˈstrʌɪɡəs/ Botany. rare.
= strigose adj.2 1 (in quot. 1877 transferred).
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair
beardedc1450
downy1551
cottoned1578
friezed1578
maned1578
woolly1578
hairy1597
bristle-pointed1601
comous1657
fimbrious1657
tomentous1657
shagged1671
tomentose1698
crinated1724
villose1727
hispid1753
pubescent1760
setose1760
villous1766
lashed1776
silky1776
strigous1776
sericeous1777
awny1786
awned1787
strigose1793
shaggy1796
stupose1799
thready1804
feather-headed1821
setous1822
aristate1829
filamentous1835
fimbriate1836
puberulent1841
puberulous1841
sericated1848
barbate1853
strigillose1857
fimbrilliferous1866
ciliolate1870
fimbrillose1884
strigulated1899
1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 385 Strigosum, strigous, armed with lance-shaped Prickles.
1877 E. Coues & J. A. Allen Monogr. N. Amer. Rodentia (U.S. Geol. Surv. Territories, vol. XI) 115 The ears..are hirsute—almost strigous—with rather long and stiffish straight hairs, that form a slight fringe.
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