Home › Words › S › scabiousscabiousscabious means having scabs.EtymologyFrom Medieval Latin scabiōsus (“scabious”), from Latin scabiēs (see scabies); partly reinterpretable as scab + -ious.adjHaving scabs.Of or pertaining to scabies.nounAny of various herbaceous plants of the genus Scabiosa.e.g.“The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts.” — 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 128]:Any of several plants of the genus Knautia.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).