squamella

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Diminutive from Latin squama (a scale).

Noun[edit]

squamella (plural squamellas or squamellae)

  1. (botany) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “squamella”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)