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Definition of Asperous
1. a. Rough; uneven.
Definition of Asperous
1. Adjective. rough, rugged, uneven ¹
2. Adjective. bitter, cruel, severe ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asperous
1. rough with short hairs [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asperous
Literary usage of Asperous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1870)
"Superiorly asperous, lobate, irregular, of a dark-grey colour, presenting here
and there an osculum amidst the projecting points of the spicules vertically ..."
2. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1860)
"... and stipes asperous."—Diplazium, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 195. ... save in the
asperous and, indeed, ... asperous, and it would he hetter, perhaps, ..."
3. Index Filicum: a Synopsis, with Characters, of the Genera, Extensively by Thomas Moore (1861)
"It differs from G. gigantea, to which it is most nearly allied, m its vestiture,
in its asperous rachides and coste, ami 111 the form of its segmenta. ..."
4. Sir Thomas Browne by Edmund Gosse (1905)
"phrase " the hill and asperous way that leadeth unto the house of sanity."
Here the introduction of a word like "asperous," although it adds nothing to the ..."
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