Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A scale or scalelike structure.
- noun A thin platelike mass, as of bone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The scale-like exopodite of a crustacean antenna.
- noun In botany, a scale of any sort, usually the homologuo of a leaf.
- noun In anatomy and zoology: A scale, as of the epidermis.
- noun A thin, expansive, scalelike part of a bone: as, the squama of the temporal bone (the squamosal); the squama of the occipital bone (the supra-occipital).
- noun In ornithology, a scale-like feather, as one of those upon a penguin's wing or the throat of a humming-bird. See cut under
Squamipennes . - noun In entomology, an elytrum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A
scale cast off from theskin ; a thin dryshred ofepithelium .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a protective structure resembling a scale
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Projecting from the lower part of the squama is a long, arched process, the zygomatic process.
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Of squama aeris, as much as three specilla can contain, with the gluten of summer wheat: levigate, pound, form into pills, and give; it purges water downwards.
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Pangolin squama composite nanostructures, non-smooth surfaces
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Pangolin squama composite nanostructures, non-smooth surfaces
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The mountainous wilderness which I had lately traversed appeared regularly undulated as the great ocean after a tempest; the undulations gradually depressing, yet perfectly regular, as the squama of fish, or imbrications of tile on a roof: the nearest ground to me of a perfect full green; next more glaucous; and lastly almost blue as the ether with which the most distant curve of the horizon seemed to be blended.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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The mountainous wilderness which I had lately traversed appeared regularly undulated as the great ocean after a tempest; the undulations gradually depressing, yet perfectly regular, as the squama of fish, or imbrications of tile on a roof: the nearest ground to me of a perfect full green; next more glaucous; and lastly almost blue as the ether with which the most distant curve of the horizon seemed to be blended.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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Anterior squama: = antisquama; q.v. Anterior stigmatal tubercle: on thoracic and abdominal segment of caterpillars; varies from substigmatal to stigmatal anterior; sometimes united to IV: it is V of the abdominal series, IV of the thorax (Dyar).
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Aileron: the scale covering the base of primaries in some insects; see tegulae in Diptera = alula and squama, q.v. Air-sacs or vesicles: pouch-like expansions of tracheal tubes in heavy insects, capable of inflation and supposed to lessen specific gravity.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Alulae: Diptera; a pair of membranous scales above the halteres, behind the root of the wing, one above or before the other; the anterior attached to the wing and moving with it, the posterior fastened to the thorax and stationary; see calyptra; squama; squamula; lobulus; axillary lobe; aileron; scale; tegulae: Coleoptera;
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Calypter: Diptera; the alula or squama when it covers the haltere.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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