Squamata vs Squamate - What's the difference?

squamata | squamate |

As a verb squamata

is .

As an adjective squamate is

(chiefly|zoology) covered in scales.

As a noun squamate is

any reptile of the order squamata.

squamata

Not English

Squamata has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'squamata':

shimada, smoothie, shunyata, sinuate, shamata, schmatte, schoenite, scandia, skandha, smoothe, schemata, squamate, shmatte, scienda, sunyata, syenite, suanite, scainiite, senaite, sinoite, sweinmote, sienite, swainmote, summate

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 ----