Squama

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A scale or scalelike structure.
  • n. A thin platelike mass, as of bone.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, a scale of any sort, usually the homologuo of a leaf.
  • n. In anatomy and zoology: A scale, as of the epidermis.
  • n. 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).
  • n. 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.
  • n. In entomology, an elytrum.
  • n. The scale-like exopodite of a crustacean antenna.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a protective structure resembling a scale
    • Variant
    squamae   
     
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