squamula

English

Etymology

From Latin squamula, diminutive of squama (“a scale”).

Noun

squamula (plural squamulas or squamulae)

1. (botany) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “squamula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)