a. [ad. L. squāmātus, f. squāma SQUAMA.] Provided or covered with squamæ or scales.
a. Zool. and Ent. 1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 338. Squamate,… wings covered with minute scales. Ex. Lepidoptera.
1841. Penny Cycl., XX. 460/2. Other very remarkable extinct terrestrial species of gigantic squamate Saurians.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 58. In the Squamate Reptiles … in which the heart has not four … separate cavities.
b. Bot. 1848. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (ed. 4), I. 314. The undisputed affinity with bulbs, whether tunicate or squamate.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1089/2. Squamate, covered with small scale-like leaves.
So Squamated a. (In 8 squamm-.) rare–1.
1752. J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 58. The body is formed of eight squammated joints, or has so many separate folds.
