Definition of Squamose

1. squama [adj] - See also: squama

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squamose

squamo-
squamo-occipital
squamocellular
squamocolumnar
squamocolumnar junction
squamofrontal
squamoid
squamomastoid
squamomastoid suture
squamoparietal
squamoparietal suture
squamopetrosal
squamosa
squamosal
squamosals
squamose (current term)
squamosely
squamosity
squamosphenoid
squamotemporal
squamotympanic
squamotympanic fissure
squamous
squamous alveolar cells
squamous border
squamous border of parietal bone
squamous border of sphenoid bone
squamous cell
squamous cell carcinoma
squamous cell hyperplasia

Literary usage of Squamose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes): To Serve as an Atlas to Th by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1886)
"Pileus with a smooth or squamose often viscid pellicle. * Mundi. Not growing on dung. 555. ... squamose ..."

2. A Monograph of the Culicidae, Or Mosquitoes by Frederick Vincent Theobald (1907)
"... hairs on each side decreasing in size to the base. Palpi brown, deep blackish apically, acuminate, the apical segment longer than the Fig. 215. squamose ..."

3. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1880)
"... the uppermost carina in each whorl is sharply produced into a crown of squamose spines where intersected by the varices; the spines are curved slightly ..."

4. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George Massee (1892)
"... fleshy, convex, obtuse, piloso- squamose with darker innate ... but not very compact, convex, obtuse, 2-3 in. broad, piloso-squamose, ..."

5. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"... -squamose, scales ciliated, costa and long stipes clothed with scales having a pellucid border ; fertile fronds linear above densely ..."

6. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1857)
"Thorax short, squamose, hirsute, ... Abdomen crested, squamose above, extending lor half its length beyond the hind wings ; sides ..."

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