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A squamosa Custard Cus"tard (k?s"t?rd), n. [Prob. the same word as OE.
crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus
covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust;
cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See
Crust, and cf. Crustated.]
A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.
Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical
America, including several species of Anona (A.
squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate
fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft,
yellowish, edible pulp.
Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a
custard [Obs.] --Shak.
Anona squamosa Sweet-sop Sweet"-sop`, n. (Bot.)
A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under
Custard.
Atrichia clamosa Scrub Scrub, n.
1. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. ``A
sorry scrub.' --Bunyan.
We should go there in as proper a manner possible;
nor altogether like the scrubs about us.
--Goldsmith.
2. Something small and mean.
3. A worn-out brush. --Ainsworth.
4. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the
prevailing plant; as, oak scrub, palmetto scrub, etc.
5. (Stock Breeding) One of the common live stock of a region
of no particular breed or not of pure breed, esp. when
inferior in size, etc. [U.S.]
Scrub bird (Zo["o]l.), an Australian passerine bird of the
family Atrichornithid[ae], as Atrichia clamosa; --
called also brush bird.
Scrub oak (Bot.), the popular name of several dwarfish
species of oak. The scrub oak of New England and the
Middle States is Quercus ilicifolia, a scraggy shrub;
that of the Southern States is a small tree (Q.
Catesb[ae]i); that of the Rocky Mountain region is Q.
undulata, var. Gambelii.
Scrub robin (Zo["o]l.), an Australian singing bird of the
genus Drymodes.
Squamosal Squamosal Squa*mo"sal, a. (Anat.)
(a) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone.
(b) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone. -- n. The
squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone
correspondending to it, under Temporal.
