Meanings (ES + gloss)
escaso • infrecuente • inhabitual • insólito • inusual • muy incomún • ralo (disused) • raro
Very uncommon; scarce.
Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable.
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition,…
ralo
Thin; of low density.
Phrases
in rare formnonrareon rare formrare animalrare as a four-leaf cloverrare as hen's teethrare as rocking horse shitrare birdrare earthrare earth elementrare earth magnetrare earth metalrare earth mineralrare gasrare grooverare spring-sedgerare-earth elementrareishrarenessrarepairraresomerarifysemiraresuperrareultrarareunrarevanishingly rare