scabious

Etymology 1
From, from (see ).

Adjective

 * 1) Having scabs.
 * 2) Of or pertaining to scabies.

Etymology 2
From, substantive form of (see Etymology 1).

Noun

 * 1) Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus.
 * 2) * 1907,, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 128]:
 * The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts.
 * 1) Any of several plants of the genus.

Derived terms

 * sweet scabious ( spp.;, syn. )
 * sweet scabious ( spp.;, syn. )
 * sweet scabious ( spp.;, syn. )
 * sweet scabious ( spp.;, syn. )