Adjective

(en adjective)

Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.

* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007), page 180

In the squamous heads of Scabius'', ''Knapweed'', and the elegant ''Jacea Pinea'', and in the Scaly composure of the ''Oak-Rose , which some years most aboundeth.

* 1933 ,

I might call it gigantic - tentacled - proboscidian - octopus-eyed - semi-amorphous - plastic - partly squamous and partly rugose - ugh!

* 1973 , Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001), page 133

We spread the papers on the least squamous section of the floor and lay down; the smell was not so bad at ground level.

* 2001 , , The Atrocity Archive (trade paperback 2006), page 66

(And we'll never find out whether the last thought to pass through the mind of the captain of the Thresher'' was, "It's squamous''' and rugose," or simply, "It's ' squamous !")

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal

Adjective

(en adjective)

Resembling scales in shape or form

*{{quote-news, 1988, January 8, Kitry Krause, On Exhibit: a menagerie of microscopic monsters, Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Below these antennae, a rounded flap hangs over all you can see of its bloodsucking stinger, a buckled straw apparently supported by a channel that is thick with scalelike excrescences. }}