used as combining form of SQUAMOSE a., in the sense ‘squamous and —,’ as squamoso-dentated, -imbricated, -radiate; or in terms of Anat. relating to the squamous bones, as squamoso-maxillary, -parietal, -temporal, -zygomatic.
1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 217. Ribs carinated, squamoso-dentated, rather rough. Ibid., 223. With twenty squamoso-imbricated rays.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXV. 269/2. The whorls turgidly convex, squamoso-radiate at the margin.
1875. Encycl. Brit., I. 874/1. The squamoso-temporal region of the skull.
