Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scabredity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: scabred-i-ty
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Roughness (of a surface).

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"concavities about the eyes, wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, næves, inequalities, roughness, scabredity, paleness, yellowness, and as many colours as are in a turkeycock's neck"
"The scabredity of the pedicels may possibly be of some mechanical assistance in the splitting of the spathe."
"In the description the lemma is described as „exceeding the glumes“, which is often the case in A. adscensionis, the awns are described as „barbatae“, an unusual denotation of the scabredity of the awns."

Etymology

From Latin scabrēdō (“roughness of the skin, scabbiness”) + -ity.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: scabrēdō

Usage

Questions

What does scabredity mean?: Roughness (of a surface).
Where does scabredity come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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