Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the shape, character, or appearance of a scale; squamate in form or structure; scale-like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the shape of a scale.
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- adjective Having the shape or structure of a
scale .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Applying this test to the known species of _Galathea, _ we perceive that the structure of the integument upon the arms, independent of the marginal spines, exhibits a squamiform appearance, but that the scales, which characterise the structure, possess features peculiar to each species.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The Lagerstraemia has petals none, or minute squamiform.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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A very singular MELALEUCA, somewhat allied to M. HUGELII, Endl.: but extremely different in the very minute squamiform leaves of the copious slender branchlets, from which they fall and leave the bleached slender branchlets full of little pits or cavities in which the leaves had been, as it were, sunk.] 5TH AUGUST. —
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Endl.: but extremely different in the very minute squamiform leaves of the copious slender branchlets, from which they fall and leave the bleached slender branchlets full of little pits or cavities in which the leaves had been, as it were, sunk.] 5TH AUGUST.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
trailingedge commented on the word squamiform
Having the shape of scales or a scale. Squamation is the condition of being scaly like the arrangement of scales on a fish
October 12, 2008