Squarrose adj. Ragged or full of loose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as: (a)(Bot. & Zool.) 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)(Zool.) 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.
