Defn: Having rough leaves.
Note: By some applied to the natural order now called Boraginaceæ or borageworts.
ASPERITY As*per"i*ty, n.; pl. Asperities. Etym: [L. asperitas, fr. asper rough: cf. F. aspérité.]
1. Roughness of surface; unevenness; — opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.
2. Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
3. Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
4. Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; — opposed to mildness. "Asperity of character." Landor. It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson.
5. Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. The acclivities and asperities of duty. Barrow.
Syn.
— Acrimony; moroseness; crabbedness; harshness; sourness; tartness.
See Acrimony.
ASPERMATOUS
A*sper"ma*tous, a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)