- An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum),
often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small
corymbed heads. - The sea trumpet.
- Consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious
eruptions. - Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species
of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have
similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.