squama

A scale or scalelike structure.

A thin platelike mass, as of bone.

The scale-like exopodite of a crustacean antenna.

In botany, a scale of any sort, usually the homologuo of a leaf.

In anatomy and zoology: A scale, as of the epidermis.

A thin, expansive, scalelike part of a bone: as, the squama of the temporal bone (the squamosal); the squama of the occipital bone (the supra-occipital).

In ornithology, a scale-like feather, as one of those upon a penguin’s wing or the throat of a humming-bird. See cut under Squamipennes.

In entomology, an elytrum.

A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.

A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.