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Squaroid vs Squamoid - What's the difference?

squaroid | squamoid |

As a noun squaroid

is roughly a square; a square-like shape.

As an adjective squamoid is

resembling a scale.

squaroid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) Roughly a square; a square-like shape
  • * 1875 , Bernhard Marks, Marks' first lessons in geometry: In two parts , Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Company, page 158:
    • If the rectangle had been called a squaroid , the difficulty would have been repeated.

    squamoid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a scale.
  • Covered with scales; scaly.
    • (Webster 1913)