squamate
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squamate¹
- /ˈskweɪmət/ UK
Rhymes with -eɪmət
Where it comes from
From Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).
adjective
- Covered in scales. The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.
squamate²
- /ˈskweɪmeɪt/ UK
Rhymes with -eɪmeɪt
Where it comes from
From the taxonomic name Squamata, from Latin squāmātus.
noun squamates
- Any reptile of the order Squamata; a lizard, snake or mosasauroid. In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates, and many other modern groups radiated substantially.
