squarrōsus

a, um, adj.
I. scurfy, scabby, scalled): squarrosi a squamarum similitudine dicti, quorum cutis exsurgit ob assiduam illuviem, Fest. pp. 328 and 329 Muüll.; Lucil. ap. Fest. l. l.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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