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adj
Not covered in scales or scale-like objects; having a smooth skin or outer covering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, botany, mycology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: scaleless
Antonyms: scaly, squamose, squamous, squamulose
History
From e- (prefix forming adjectives with the sense of lacking something) + squamulose; squamulose is derived from New Latin squāmulōsus (“squamulose”), from Latin squamula (“small scales”) (diminutive of squāma (“scale of a fish or reptile; item shaped like a scale, flake”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’). The English word is analysable as e- + squamula + -ose.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
