Meanings
adjectivesquamigerous (comparative more squamigerous, superlative most squamigerous)
comparative more squamigerous · superlative most squamigerous
- datedbiologyBearing scales.
Can it be possible that silver is to be trodden down by the feet and claws of gold-bugs, flattened by the Kanchulla of money-devils or swallowed by the squamigerous hydra of Wall Street?
1897 May 13, “Run Here, Somebody”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume LXVII (old series) / XXXII (new series), number 291, Montgomery, Ala.: The Advertiser Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2
Origin
- Latinsquamiger
- Englishsquamigerous
From Latin squamiger; squama (“a scale”) + gerere (“to bear”).
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Rhymes with squamigerous
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Chicago
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