squamate

English

Etymology

From Latin squāmātus.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskweɪmət/

Adjective

squamate (comparative more squamate, superlative most squamate)

  1. (chiefly zoology) Covered in scales.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 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

Noun

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, volume 323, number 5915, DOI:10.1126/science.1157719, 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


Italian

Verb

squamate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of squamare
  2. second-person plural imperative of squamare
  3. feminine plural of squamato

Latin

Adjective

squamāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of squamātus
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