a. - Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts;
rough; jagged
a. - 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.
a. - Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of
the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
a. - Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright,
or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell.