squamose

Adjective

squamous (comparative more squamous, superlative most squamous)

1. Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.
   • In the squamous heads of Scabius, Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Pinea, and in the Scaly composure of the Oak-Rose, which some years most aboundeth.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 180

   Synonyms:

   squamose, squamulose, scaled, scaly, scarious, squamate, squamated, squamiferous, squamoid, furfuraceous

   Antonyms:

   esquamulose, scaleless

2. Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal
3. Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells that are wider than their height (flat and scale-like).