squamulan.
/ˈskweɪmjʊlə/ Zoology, Entomology, and Botany.
A small scale; a squamule.
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1754 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Lepidoptera Four wings, which are covered with imbricated squamulæ.
1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 15 The central part assumes the figure of a squamula.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 294 In certain other genera, as Bambusa, and Stipa, a third squamula exists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1754- seed trough
- seed vein
- seed vessel
- seed water
- seed weed
- seed wheat
- seed year
- seed, breed, and generation
- seed-bearing
- seed-bone
- seed-borne
- seed-cob
- seed-cod
- self-evidentism
- self-evidently
- self-evolution
- self-evolved
- self-evolving
- self-exaltation
- self-exaltative
- self-exalted
- self-exalting
- self-exaltingly
- self-examinant
- self-examination