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Squamate

//ˈskweɪmət// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered in scales. not-comparable

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    Any reptile of the order Squamata; a lizard, snake or mosasauroid.

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).

Etymology 2

From Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).

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