Etymology

squame

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Today it means: The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean. Full definition →

Latin squāma
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromsquāma
  2. English todaysquame

From Latin squāma. Doublet of squama.

Words from the same roots

Latinsquāma all →

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