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squamations

squamations is the plural of squamation.

Meaning of squamation

Noun

squamation (countable and uncountable, plural squamations)

  1. (uncountable) The condition or character of being covered with scales.
    • A Palæoniscoid fish showing a condition of squamation almost identical with that of Polyodon.1881, Nature, № 627, page 2/1
  2. (countable) A particular arrangement of scales; a special mode or form of squamation.
    • A fish from the Muschelkalk…has been made the type of the genus Prohalecites on account of peculiar features in its squamation.1889, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker, A Manual of Palæontology, 3rd edition, volume II, page 987
  3. (countable) A scaly growth on the skin.
    • Meanwhile, the lividity will spread over your skin, and it will darken to black, and it will pouch out into gummata and blebs and furuncles and squamations until your entire body—including your face resembles one great bunch of black raisins.2010, Gary Jennings, The Journeyer, →ISBN, page 285

Questions about squamations

What is squamations the plural of?
Squamations is the plural of squamation.

Words near squamations in the dictionary

  1. squamate
  2. squamated
  3. squamates
  4. squamatic acid
  5. squamation
  6. squamations
  7. squamatization
  8. squame
  9. squamella
  10. squamellae
  11. squamellas

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