squamate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsquamate (comparative more squamate, superlative most squamate)
- (chiefly zoology) Covered in scales.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 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
edit- scaly, squamose; see also Thesaurus:scaly
Noun
editsquamate (plural squamates)
- Any reptile of the order Squamata.
- 2009 February 6, Michael J. Benton, “The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time”, in Science[1], volume 323, number 5915, , pages 728–732:
- 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
editFrench
editNoun
editsquamate m (plural squamates)
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editsquamate
- inflection of squamare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editsquamate f pl
Latin
editAdjective
editsquāmāte
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