squamose

In botany, scaly; furnished with small appressed scales or squamæ; also, scalelike. Also squamate, squamous.

In zoology, squamous; squamiferous or squamigerous; covered with scales; scaly; specifically, in entomology, covered with minute scales, as the wings of lepidopterous insects; lepidopterous; squamulate.

adjective

Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly

adjective

Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.

adjective

Alternative form of squamous.