squamose, a.
(skwəˈməʊs)
Also 7–9 squammose.
[ad. L. squāmōs-us, f. squāma scale.]
1. Covered or furnished with scales; scaly.
| 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Isagoge a 3, Fishes, which are..Marine and Fluviatile both, and are squammose, or scaled. 1695 Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth i. 32 The Teeth and Bones of the cartilaginous and squammose Fishes. 1752 J. Hill Hist. Anim. 221 There always stands a large fleshy and squammose apophysis at the top of each of these [fins]. 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 274 Squamose, covered with minute scales. 1854 Badham Halieut. 259 No fish of the same inches is more broadly squamose than the Carp. 1856 W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 298 Body depressed, squamose, not saltatory, terminated by 3 subequal setæ. |
2. Anat. = squamous a. 1 a, 1 b.
| [1699 Phil. Trans. XXI. 142 The Squammosa part of the Temporal Bones was wanting.] 1708 Phil. Trans. XXVI. 173 It was in the interior part of the Squamose Bone. 1758 J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) Expl. Fig. i, The Squamose Suture of the Temporal Bones. 1847 H. Miller Test. Rocks vi. (1857) 214 It overrode by a squamose suture the lower plates with which it came in contact. |
3. Bot. = squamous a. 3.
| 1731 P. Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Abies, Soaking them all Night in Water..will cause their squamose Cells to open. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. xxxi. (1765) 152 Fritillaria, with a squamose Bulb. 1857 Henfrey Bot. §47 Bulbs are named, according to the character of their leaf-scales, scaly or squamose, when these only partially overlap. 1857 M. J. Berkeley Cryptog. Bot. 337 The outer coat assumes various forms, being floccose, furfuraceous, or squamose. 1879 A. Gray Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 40 The squamose (scale-like) character of this covering. |
4. Path. = squamous a. 6.
| 1822–7 Good Study Med. (1829) V. 547 Hence a great variety of superficial eruptions, papulous, pustulous, and ichorous, squammose, or furfuraceous. Ibid. 613 Various other species of squamose or leprous affections of the skin. |
Hence squaˈmosely adv.; squaˈmoseness.
| 1727 Bailey, Squamoseness, Scaliness. 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 217 Backs squamosely serrated. Ibid. 223 Sides squamosely scabrous. |