Squamose

Word SQUAMOSE
Character 8
Hyphenation squa mose
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Squamose"

What do we mean by squamose?

Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.

Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal

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The word "squamose" in example sentences

-- (Fig. 200.) In the P. Madisonius, the ribs number about fifteen, and they are ornamented with three squamose ridges each. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Shell very large, ribs, ten, and wide, and longitudinally marked by fine ridges, which are not squamose. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Shell comparatively thin, and light and compressed valves; circular, sometimes oblique and equilateral; ribs twenty-four, marked on the outside with concentric squamose lines of growth, which are undulating, the last of which are strong; lower valve less convex than the upper. ❋ Unknown (1858)

A. [EXOGYRA COSTATA] Shell sub-oval, very thick, lower valve convex, and covered with strong corrugated ribs; apex lateral, with about two volutions; upper valve flat, thick, supplied with numerous elevated concentric squamose plates. ❋ Unknown (1858)

[CHAMA CORTICOSA] Shell thick, squamose, or concentrically laminated and imbricate; lamina striated, sinistral, crenulated interiorly; upper valve flat. ❋ Unknown (1858)

-- (Fig. 209.) Shell thick, or orbicular-cordate squamose; the radiating ribs spinose, strong, tubular or folded; intervening space coarsely punctate and rugose. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Weeks were once given over to a small misunderstanding over the Louisiana Purchase versus the Louisiana perches, Flim, Flam and Flo, "a stellar set of squamose songsters." ❋ Jon Carroll (2011)

I may mention, that the dorsal surface of this ancient fish had also its central plate, -- a lozenge truncated at its two longer ends; and that, moulded to meet the necessities of its position, it was not flat, like the under one, but strongly arched; and that on four of its six sides it overrode by a squamose suture the lower plates with which it came in contact. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

One or two half-grown specimens occur in the series entirely devoid of tubercles, while a small shell before me, undoubtedly of this species, is squamose adjoining the suture, has two rows of tubercles above, a large row below, and is covered with strong revolving lines. ❋ Unknown (1771)

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