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Meanings of scab in English
Usage of scab in English
1
Streptomyces scabiei causes common scab, an economically important disease of potato tubers.
2
I just wanted to look at the scale scab, I told myself.
3
The scab is by far the most formidable weapon of the three.
4
The pecan scab is the most typical fungus parasite of the pecan.
5
Her father calls her a scab and bolts the door behind her.
6
Once she noticed a fresh circular scab up in the lyrinx's armpit.
7
This one had seeped and the wrappings had stuck to the scab.
8
Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil?
9
Brimstone giggled to himself and scratched a scab on his balding pate.
10
The city encrusted a half-moon bay like a scab around a sore.
11
I'll be even with ye yet, my man-youand that red-headed scab.
12
Maybe Christmas. Back to the scab, the perimeter now smeared with blood.
13
Don't you know it can be seen, you scab, through the roof?
14
She had a 'Don't be a scab' ribbon on-that'sall she done!
15
They held the reins bloody red, fingernails outlined in dried black scab.
16
Compared with that fat black scab, the scales were not so ugly.
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Scab across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common