squamous

Du latin squamosus, dérivé de squama (« écaille »).

squamous

1. Squameux.
   • 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. — (Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007), page 180, 1658)
   • I might call it gigantic - tentacled - proboscidian - octopus-eyed - semi-amorphous - plastic - partly squamous and partly rugose - ugh! — (H. P. Lovecraft et Hazel Heald, Out of the Aeons, 1933)
   • We spread the papers on the least squamous section of the floor and lay down; the smell was not so bad at ground level. — (Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don’t Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001), page 133, 1973)
   • (And we’ll never find out whether the last thought to pass through the mind of the captain of the Thresher was, "It’s squamous and rugose," or simply, "It’s squamous!") — (Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archive (trade paperback 2006), page 66, 2001)
2. (Anatomie) Relatif à l’os squamosal.

• scaly
• squamosal

• (États-Unis) : écouter « squamous [Prononciation ?] »
• (Royaume-Uni) : \ˈskweɪ.məʊs\, \ˈskwɑː.məʊs\
• (États-Unis) : \ˈskweɪ.moʊs\, \ˈskwɑ.moʊs\

• Cet article utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC-BY-SA-3.0 : squamous.