Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being squamose.
  • noun A squamose area, as on the elytron of a beetle.
  • noun The collective scales on a squamose area.

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  • noun The quality of being squamose.

Etymologies

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squamose +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • But even in the midst of such squamosity we see the outlines of a vast form rising.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

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