- Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts;
rough; jagged - 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. - Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of
the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf. - Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright,
or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell.
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