squamate

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English

Etymology

From Latin squāmātus (scaly).

Pronunciation

Adjective

squamate (comparative more squamate, superlative most squamate)

  1. (chiefly zoology) Covered in scales.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 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; a lizard or a snake.
    • 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, 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.

French

Noun

squamate m (plural squamates)

  1. squamate

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

squamate

  1. inflection of squamare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

squamate f pl

  1. feminine plural of squamato

Latin

Adjective

squāmāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of squāmātus