asperifolious

English

Alternative forms

• asperifoliate

Etymology

Latin asper (“rough”) + folium (“leaf”).

Adjective

asperifolious (comparative more asperifolious, superlative most asperifolious)

1. (botany) Having rough leaves.

Usage notes

• Applied by some writers to the natural order now called Boraginaceae or borageworts.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “asperifolious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)