a. Also 7–9 squammose. [ad. L. squāmōs-us, f. squāma scale.]

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  1.  Covered or furnished with scales; scaly.

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1661.  Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Isagoge a 3. Fishes, which are … Marine and Fluviatile both, and are squammose, or scaled.

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1695.  Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, I. 32. The Teeth and Bones of the cartilaginous and squammose Fishes.

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1752.  J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 221. There always stands a large fleshy and squammose apophysis at the top of each of these [fins].

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 274. Squamose, covered with minute scales.

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1854.  Badham, Halieut., 259. No fish of the same inches is more broadly squamose than the Carp.

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1856.  W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 298. Body depressed, squamose, not saltatory, terminated by 3 subequal setæ.

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  2.  Anat. = SQUAMOUS a. 1 a, 1 b.

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[1699.  Phil. Trans., XXI. 142. The Squammosa part of the Temporal Bones was wanting.]

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1708.  Phil. Trans., XXVI. 173. It was in the interior part of the Squamose Bone.

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1758.  J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), Expl. Fig. 1, The Squamose Suture of the Temporal Bones.

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1847.  H. Miller, Test. Rocks, vi. (1857), 214. It overrode by a squamose suture the lower plates with which it came in contact.

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  3.  Bot. = SQUAMOUS a. 3.

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1731.  P. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Abies, Soaking them all Night in Water … will cause their squamose Cells to open.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., II. xxxi. (1765), 152. Fritillaria, with a squamose Bulb.

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1857.  Henfrey, Bot., § 47. Bulbs are named, according to the character of their leaf-scales, scaly or squamose, when these only partially overlap.

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1857.  M. J. Berkeley, Cryptog. Bot., 337. The outer coat assumes various forms, being floccose, furfuraceous, or squamose.

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1879.  A. Gray, Struct. Bot. (ed. 6), 40. The squamose (scale-like) character of this covering.

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  4.  Path. = SQUAMOUS a. 6.

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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.

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  Hence Squamosely adv.; Squamoseness.

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1727.  Bailey, Squamoseness, Scaliness.

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1822.  J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 217. Backs squamosely serrated. Ibid., 223. Sides squamosely scabrous.

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