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squamous
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)
- 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!")
- (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
- (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.
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squamocolumnar
English
Etymology
squamo- +? columnar
Adjective
squamocolumnar (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Of or pertaining to a junction between stratified squamous epithelium and columnar epithelium
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