Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, scaly disease: applied to ichthyosis, psoriasis, and pityriasis.
- noun A scaly outgrowth; specifically, the ‘horn’ on the nose of the sand-viper, Vipera ammodytes.
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The Guerrero species possesses a strikingly distinct color pattern and differs from all other rattlesnakes in aspects of lepidosis.
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