Zool., Ent. and Bot. [L., dim. of squāma scale.] A small scale; a squamule.
1754. Dict. Arts & Sci., s.v. Lepidoptera, Four wings, which are covered with imbricated squamulæ.
1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 15. The central part assumes the figure of a squamula.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 294. In certain other genera, as Bambusa, and Stipa, a third squamula exists.
