squamous
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin squāmōsus, from squāma (“scale”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
squamous (comparative more squamous, superlative most squamous)
- Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.
- Synonyms: squamose, squamulose; see also Thesaurus:scaly
- Antonyms: esquamulose, scaleless
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007), page 180
- In the squamous heads of Scabius, Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Pinea, and in the Scaly composure of the Oak-Rose, which some years most aboundeth.
- 1933, H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, Out of the Aeons
- I might call it gigantic - tentacled - proboscidian - octopus-eyed - semi-amorphous - plastic - partly squamous and partly rugose - ugh!
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001), page 133
- We spread the papers on the least squamous section of the floor and lay down; the smell was not so bad at ground level.
- 2001, Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archive (trade paperback 2006), page 66
- (And we'll never find out whether the last thought to pass through the mind of the captain of the Thresher was, "It's squamous and rugose," or simply, "It's squamous!")
- (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal
Related terms
Translations
scaly
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