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From New Latin squāmulōsus (squamulose), from Latin squamula (small scales) (diminutive of squāma (scale of a fish or reptile; item shaped like a scale, flake)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’). The English word is analysable as squamula +‎ -ose.[1]

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squamulose (comparative more squamulose, superlative most squamulose)

  1. (botany, mycology, zoology) Having small scales.
    Synonyms: scaly, squamous; see also Thesaurus:scaly
    Antonyms: esquamulose, scaleless
    The stem of the mushroom is squamulose.
    • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84:
      Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.

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  1. ^ Compare “squamulose, adj.”, in OED Online  , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1915; “squamulose”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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squāmulōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of squāmulōsus