squamule
noun
plural -s
: a small scale:
a
: one of the scalelike lobes of the thallus of a lichen
b
: lodicule
Word History
Etymology
New Latin squamula
- peripheral field
- peripheral nervous system
- peripheral neuropathy
- peripheralism
- peripherally
- peripherals
- peripheries
- periphero-
- periphery
- periphrase
- periphrases
- periphrasis
- periphrastic
- periphrastically
- periphyses
- periphysis
- periphytic
- periphyton
- periphytons
- periplanetae
- periplanetas
- periplasm
- periplasmic
- periplasmodium
- periplasms