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In botany, scaly; furnished with small appressed scales or squamæ; also, scalelike. Also squamate, squamous.
In zoology, squamous; squamiferous or squamigerous; covered with scales; scaly; specifically, in entomology, covered with minute scales, as the wings of lepidopterous insects; lepidopterous; squamulate.

I may mention, that the dorsal surface of this ancient fish had also its central plate, -- a lozenge truncated at its two longer ends; and that, moulded to meet the necessities of its position, it was not flat, like the under one, but strongly arched; and that on four of its six sides it overrode by a squamose suture the lower plates with which it came in contact. — The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed