Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a squama; squamiform; scale-like.
  • Squamous: scaly; squamate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Resembling a scale.
  • adjective Covered with scales; scaly.

Etymologies

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Latin squama scale + -oid.

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