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Etymology

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From Latin squāmātus (scaly).

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squamate (comparative more squamate, superlative most squamate)

  1. (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.

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squamate (plural squamates)

  1. 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, →DOI, 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.

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French

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Noun

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squamate m (plural squamates)

  1. squamate

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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squamate

  1. inflection of squamare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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squamate f pl

  1. feminine plural of squamato

Latin

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Adjective

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squāmāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of squāmātus