adj ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged.
2. squarrose ·adj divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
3. squarrose ·adj having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface;
said of a shell.
4. squarrose ·adj 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.