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Scaly vs Squamate - What's the difference?

scaly | squamate | Synonyms |

Scaly is a synonym of squamate.


As adjectives the difference between scaly and squamate

is that scaly is covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish while squamate is (chiefly|zoology) covered in scales.

As nouns the difference between scaly and squamate

is that scaly is (south africa) the scaly yellowfish, while squamate is any reptile of the order squamata.

scaly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
  • Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
  • (dated, vulgar, or, South African) Mean; low.
    • a scaly fellow
  • Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia scaly) (Scaly Yellowfish) (Labeobarbus natalensis) (scalies)
  • (South Africa) The scaly yellowfish, .

    • Anagrams

    * *

    squamate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, zoology) Covered in scales.
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 45:
    • The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.

    Synonyms

    * scaly * squamose

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any reptile of the order Squamata.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 6, Michael J. Benton, The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time, Science citation
    • , passage=In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates , and many other modern groups radiated substantially. }}

    Hyponyms

    * lizard * snake ----