squamulose
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin squāmulōsus (“squamulose”), from Latin squamula (“small scales”) (diminutive of squāma (“scale of a fish or reptile; item shaped like a scale, flake”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’). The English word is analysable as squamula + -ose.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈskweɪmjʊləʊs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈskweɪmjʊloʊs/
- Hyphenation: squa‧mul‧ose
Adjective
[edit]squamulose (comparative more squamulose, superlative most squamulose)
- (botany, mycology, zoology) Having small scales.
- Synonyms: scaly, squamous; see also Thesaurus:scaly
- Antonyms: esquamulose, scaleless
- The stem of the mushroom is squamulose.
- 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84:
- Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]having small scales
References
[edit]- ^ Compare “squamulose, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1915; “squamulose”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]squāmulōse
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