squaˈmation Zool.
[f. squama. See -ation.]
The condition or character of being covered with scales; a special mode or form of this.
| 1881 Nature No. 627. 2/1 A Palæoniscoid fish showing a condition of squamation almost identical with that of Polyodon. 1889 Nicholson & Lydekker Palæontology (ed. 3) II. 987 A fish from the Muschelkalk..has been made the type of the genus Prohalecites on account of peculiar features in its squamation. 1900 Nature 20 Sept. 507/1 Eurynotus..still retains the palæoniscid squamation. |