squamous
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squamous
- /ˈskweɪ.məs/ UK
- /ˈskweɪ.məs/ US
- /ˈskwɑː.məs/ US
Rhymes with -eɪməs
Where it comes from
From Middle English squamous, from Latin squāmōsus, from squāma (“scale(of a fish or reptile)”).
adjective more squamous · most squamous
- Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly. In the squamous heads of Scabius, Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Pinea, and in the Scaly composure of the Oak-Rose, which some years most aboundeth.
- Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal
- Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells that are wider than their height (flat and scale-like).
