a. Now rare or Obs. Also 7, 9 squamm-. [ad. L. squāmeus, f. L. squāma SQUAMA.] Furnished or covered with scales; scaly.

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1676.  Grew, Anat. Pl., Anal. Fl. (1682), 175. Leaves are Membraneous, as the greater part; Squameous, as Abies, or Filamentous.

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1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 114. Such are the bones of Whales, Sea-horses, and the bones of all the squammeous kind.

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1721.  Bailey, Squameous, scaly or like Scales.

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1829.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, VIII. 85. Squammeous Pigeon, Columba Squamosa.

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