scorious

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

scoria +‎ -ous

Adjective[edit]

scorious (comparative more scorious, superlative most scorious)

  1. scoriaceous
    • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
      For by the fire they omit not only many drossie and scorious parts, but whatsoever they had received either from the earth or Loadstone;