\Squar*rose"\ (? or ?; 277), a. [L. squarrosus
(perhaps) scurfy, scabby.]
Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough;
jagged; as:
(a) (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) 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.
(b) (Bot.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the
    plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a
    leaf.
(c) (Zo["o]l.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing
    upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a
    shell.
{Squarrose-slashed} (Bot.), doubly slashed, with the smaller
   divisions at right angles to the others, as a leaf.
   --Landley.