Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having the shape of scales or a scale.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the shape, character, or appearance of a scale; squamate in form or structure; scale-like.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having the shape or structure of a scale.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the shape of a scale.
Etymologies
- Latin squama ("scale") + -form (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Applying this test to the known species of _Galathea, _ we perceive that the structure of the integument upon the arms, independent of the marginal spines, exhibits a squamiform appearance, but that the scales, which characterise the structure, possess features peculiar to each species.”
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
“The Lagerstraemia has petals none, or minute squamiform.”
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
“A very singular MELALEUCA, somewhat allied to M. HUGELII, Endl.: but extremely different in the very minute squamiform leaves of the copious slender branchlets, from which they fall and leave the bleached slender branchlets full of little pits or cavities in which the leaves had been, as it were, sunk.] 5TH AUGUST. —”
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
“Endl.: but extremely different in the very minute squamiform leaves of the copious slender branchlets, from which they fall and leave the bleached slender branchlets full of little pits or cavities in which the leaves had been, as it were, sunk.] 5TH AUGUST.”
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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phrontistery-s
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sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Squ-
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squid, squab, square, squeegee, squirt, squire, squib, squelch, squabble, squad, squally, squalled and 228 more...
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Shape Words
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clithridiate, botryose, fimbriate, filiciform, plumaceous, rhipidate, auriculate, belemnoid, cirriform, scyphate, falcate, cortinate and 127 more...
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trailingedge's list
Word Depository 08
protolithic, posteriority, squamiform, guillotinings, intransigence, proprioception, undiminished, ungulates, eutrophication, ramblingly, sojourner, blissful ignorance and 26 more...
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trailingedge Having the shape of scales or a scale. Squamation is the condition of being scaly like the arrangement of scales on a fish Oct 12, 2008