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Squamate vs Squarate - What's the difference?

squamate | squarate |

As nouns the difference between squamate and squarate

is that squamate is any reptile of the order squamata while squarate is (organic chemistry) any salt or ester of squaric acid.

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 ----

    squarate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of squaric acid