MEANING
Covered with scales, or composed of small, flattened, scalelike structures.
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An unfamiliar scaled body; a bodily surface changing its covering; creature morphologyGive a surface overlapping scale structure, not merely roughness.
Words that belong together
- squamous hide
- squamous surface
- squamous epithelium
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A squamous patch had appeared along the creature's spine.
Light caught the edges of the squamous hide.
The report concerned squamous cells, not the visible scales described by the witness.
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- Base
- squamous
Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Technical; in medicine, squamous cells are not visible reptile scales. Use the covered-with-scales sense deliberately for creature description. Adjective; normally non-gradable; use the base form rather than mechanical -er/-est forms.
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