Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, same as
squamula , 2. - noun In zoology, a genus of zygotrochous rotifers, of the family Euchlanidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
diminutive scale orbractlet , such as those found on thereceptacle in manycomposite plants ; apalea .
Etymologies
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Diminutive from Latin squama a scale.
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