squamate
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin squāmātus.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
squamate (comparative more squamate, superlative most squamate)
- (chiefly zoology) Covered in scales.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 45:
- The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 45:
Synonyms
- scaly, squamose; see also Thesaurus:scaly
Noun
squamate (plural squamates)
- Any reptile of the order Squamata.
- 2009 February 6, Michael J. Benton, “The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time”, in Science[1], volume 323, number 5915, , pages 728-732:
- In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates, and many other modern groups radiated substantially.
Hyponyms
Italian
Verb
squamate
- second-person plural present indicative of squamare
- second-person plural imperative of squamare
- feminine plural of squamato
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) squāmāte
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