squama

English

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin squāma (scale, flake).

Origin

Latin

squāma

Gloss

scale, flake

Concept
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