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squamate | null |

As nouns the difference between squamate and null

is that squamate is any reptile of the order squamata while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective squamate

is (chiefly|zoology) covered in scales.

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 ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----