different between squamous vs scalelike

English

Etymology

From Middle English squamous, from Latin squ?m?sus, from squ?ma (“scale”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skwe?.m?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?skwe?.m?s/, /?skw??.m?s/
• Rhymes: -e?m?s

Adjective

squamous (comparative more squamous, superlative most squamous)

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

   Synonyms: squamose, squamulose; see also Thesaurus:scaly

   Antonyms: esquamulose, scaleless

   • 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, H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, Out of the Aeons

     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, Charles Stross, 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!")

2. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal

Related terms

• squama

Derived terms

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• squamos, squamose, sqaumouse
• (Northern) swamous

Etymology

From Latin squ?m?sus; equivalent to squame +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skwa?mus/

Adjective

squamous

1. (Late Middle English) scaly (especially due to disease)

Descendants

• English: squamous

References

• “squ?m?us, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Alternative forms

• scale-like

Etymology

scale +? -like

Adjective

scalelike (comparative more scalelike, superlative most scalelike)

1. Resembling scales in shape or form

Synonyms

• squamiform, squamoid