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Squamous

//ˈskweɪ.məs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal
  3. 3
    Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells that are wider than their height (flat and scale-like).

Etymology

From Middle English squamous, from Latin squāmōsus, from squāma (“scale(of a fish or reptile)”).

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