Meanings
squamate1
- not comparablebiologyCovered in scales.
The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 45Synonyms: scaly, squamose, scaled, scaly, scarious, squamated, squamiferous, squamoid
squamate2
plural squamates
- Any reptile of the order Squamata; a lizard, snake or mosasauroid.
In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates, and many other modern groups radiated substantially.
2009 February 6, Michael J. Benton, “The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 728–732
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCovered in scales.
Origin
squamate · adjective
- Latinsquāmātus“scaly”
- Englishsquamate
From Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →squamate · noun
- Latinsquāmātus
- taxonomic nameSquamata
- Englishsquamate
From the taxonomic name Squamata, from Latin squāmātus.
More words from taxonomic name, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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