SQUAMOSE; SQUAMOUS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.

2.
n.

Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.