Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having little scales; covered with squamules; minutely scaly or squamose. Also squamellate, squamulose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
squamulose .
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- adjective Having small
scales ;squamulose .
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Examples
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a squamulate appearance to it; when narrowly examined, just above the rather large and bluntish scutellum, there are some distinct scattered punctures; thorax beneath covered with fulvous hairs.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
fbharjo commented on the word squamulate
I lichen you on any scale
May 12, 2008