squamigerous

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin squamiger; squama (“a scale”) +‎ gerere (“to bear”).

Adjective edit

squamigerous (comparative more squamigerous, superlative most squamigerous)

(zoology) Bearing scales.
- 1897 May 13, “Run Here, Somebody”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume LXVII (old series) / XXXII (new series), number 291, Montgomery, Ala.: The Advertiser Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
  Can it be possible that silver is to be trodden down by the feet and claws of gold-bugs, flattened by the Kanchulla of money-devils or swallowed by the squamigerous hydra of Wall Street?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “squamigerous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)