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adj
Having small scales.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, mycology, natural-sciences, zoology
Synonyms: scaly, squamous, scaled, scarious, squamate, squamated, squamiferous, squamoid, furfuraceous, squamulose, squarrose
Antonyms: esquamulose, scaleless
adjective satellite
covered with tiny scales
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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 squamula + -ose.
