Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, scalelike thallus lobe of certain lichens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany and zoology, same as
squamula .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Same as
squamula .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany, mycology A small
scale .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a minute scale
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin squāmula, diminutive of squāma, scale.]
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