‖n. [ L. See Scar a kind of fish. ] (Zool.) A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish. [ 1913 Webster ]
(n) (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned
(n) Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC), Syn. Titus Lucretius Carus