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Borrowed from Latin squāma (“scale”). Doublet of squame.

squama (plural squamae or squamas)

1. (medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
2. (botany) The bract of a deciduous spike.
3. (botany) Any scaly bracted leaf.
4. (entomology) A calypter.

• squamation

• squamous

• “squama”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “squama”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈskwa.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: squà‧ma

From Latin squāma.

squama f (plural squame)

1. (zoology) scale (keratin piece covering the skin of reptiles and fishes)

   Synonym: scaglia

2. (anatomy) squama

• squamare
• squamoso

Inflected form of the verb squamare.

squama

1. inflection of squamare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Probably related to squālus (“filthy, foul”) or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskʷaː.ma/, [ˈs̠kʷäːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskwa.ma/, [ˈskwäːmä]

squāma f (genitive squāmae); first declension

1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
2. (by extension) flake; any item shaped like a scale

First-declension noun.

• squāmātus
• squāmeus
• squāmifer / squāmiger
• squāmōsus
• squāmula

• “squama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “squama”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• squama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.