squamate

English

Etymology

From Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskweɪmət/

Adjective

squamate (comparative more squamate, superlative most squamate)

1. (chiefly zoology) Covered in scales.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 45:

     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.

Synonyms

• scaly, squamose; see also Thesaurus:scaly

Noun

squamate (plural squamates)

1. Any reptile of the order Squamata; a lizard or a snake.
   • 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^[1], volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 728–732:

     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.

French

Noun

squamate m (plural squamates)

1. squamate

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

squamate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

squamate f pl

1. feminine plural of squamato

Latin

Adjective

squāmāte

1. vocative masculine singular of squāmātus