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
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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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