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squamous - What does it mean?

Definition of 'squamous'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.
  • * 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 ,
  • 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 , , 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
  • Synonyms

    * squamate * squamated * squamose