Meanings
- not comparablebiologyNot covered in scales or scale-like objects; having a smooth skin or outer covering.
Both subspecies may superficially resemble C. furcata var. furcata, but can be distinguished by the imperforate axils and esquamulose podetia.
1974, D. C. Lindsay, “Systematic Account”, in The Macrolichens of South Georgia (British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports; no. 89), London: British Antarctic Survey, National Environment Research Council, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2019, section 14 (Descriptions of Genera and Species), page 224 more examples
D[umortiera] hirsuta Nees. Diœcious; thallus 5–15 cm. long, 1.3–2 cm. wide, thin, deep-green, becoming blackish, plane and entire on the margins, exareolate and naked, or sometimes with a delicate, coarsely reticulated, closely appressed, cobweb-like pubescence above, hirsute and esquamulose beneath; [...]
1884, Lucien M[arcus] Underwood, “Article I.—Descriptive Catalogue of the North American Hepaticæ, North of Mexico”, in Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, Normal, Illinois, volume II, Peoria, Ill.: J. W. Franks & Sons, printers and binders, →OCLC, order II (Marchantiaceæ Corda.), section VII (Dumortiera Nees.), paragraph 1, page 38Saurauja nudiflora, [...]. A tree 20 to 30 feet high; youngest branchlets dark-coloured, squamulose towards the apex; the older esquamulose, pale, faintly striate.
1890 February 5, George King, “VIII.—Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula.”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume LIX, part II (Natural Science), number 2, Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, →OCLC, order XV (Ternstrœmiaceæ), section 6 (Saurauja, Willd.), page 198Hookeri [...] In the only British specimen seen these are about 1 in. high, robust, entirely esquamulose, with the apothecia somewhat large, conglomerate, and having a few minute squamules intermixed.
1894, James M[orrison] Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain: Being a Descriptive Catalogue of the Species in the Herbarium of the British Museum, London: Printed by order of the Trustees [of the British Museum] […], →OCLC, page 164Cladonia multiformis. [...] Podetia irregularly sub-cylindrical at the base, commonly entire but sometimes fissured and gaping, slender or stout, simple or pseudo-branched by obliteration of an early scyphus, esquamulose or more or less leafy throughout, [...]
1909 January, G. K. Merrill, “Lichen Notes No. 7. Cladonia multiformis (nom. nov.) Bry. 6: 1908.”, in Annie Morrill Smith, editor, The Bryologist: An Illustrated Bimonthly Devoted to North American Mosses, Hepatics and Lichens, volume XII, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Published by the editor, […], →OCLC, page 4Synonyms: scaleless · Antonyms: scaly, squamose, squamous, squamulose
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot covered in scales or scale-like objects; having a smooth skin or outer covering.
Origin
- Latinsquamula“small scales”
- New Latinsquāmulōsus“squamulose”
- Englishesquamulose
From e- (prefix forming adjectives with the sense of lacking something) + squamulose; squamulose is derived from New Latin squāmulōsus (“squamulose”), from Latin squamula (“small scales”) (diminutive of squāma (“scale of a fish or reptile; item shaped like a scale, flake”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’). The English word is analysable as e- + squamula + -ose.
More words from New Latin, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German schuppenlos
- schuppenlosnot covered in scales or scale-like objects
Polish bezłuski
- bezłuskinot covered in scales or scale-like objects
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