Squalor
(Squa"lor) n. [L., fr. squalere to be foul or filthy.] Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.
The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.
Taylor.
To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes.
Dickens. Squama
(||Squa"ma) n.; pl. Squamæ [L. a scale.] (Med.) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred
consisting of epithelium.
Squamaceous
(Squa*ma"ceous) a. Squamose.
Squamata
(||Squa*ma"ta) n. pl. [NL., fr. L. squamatus scaly.] (Zoöl.) A division of edentates having
the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.
Squamate
(Squa"mate Squa"ma*ted) , a. [L. squamatus.] Same as Squamose.
Squamduck
(Squam"duck`) (Zoöl.) The American eider duck. [Local, U.S.]
Squame
(Squame) n. [L. squama scale.]
1. A scale. [Obs.] "iron squames." Chaucer.
2. (Zoöl.) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
Squamella
(||Squa*mel"la) n.; pl. Squamellæ [NL., dim. fr. L. squama a scale.] (Bot.) A diminutive
scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.
Squamellate
(Squa*mel"late) a. Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.
Squamiform
(Squa"mi*form) a.[L. squama a scale + -form.] Having the shape of a scale.
Squamigerous
(Squa*mig"er*ous) a. [L. squamiger; squama a scale + gerere to bear.] (Zoöl.) Bearing
scales.
Squamipen
(Squam"i*pen) n. ;pl. Squamipennes [L. squama a scale + penna a fin: cf. F. squamipenne.]
(Zoöl.) Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.
They are compressed and mostly, bright-colored tropical fishes, belonging to Chætodon and allied genera.
Many of them are called soral fishes, and angel fishes.
Squamoid
(Squa"moid) a. [L. squama scale + -oid.] Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.
Squamosal
(Squa*mo"sal) a. (Anat.) (a) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone. (b) Of or
pertaining to the squamosal bone. — n. The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending
to it, under Temporal.
Squamose
(Squa*mose" Squa"mous) , [L. squamosus, fr. squama a scale: cf. F. squameux.]
1. Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine;
squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied
resemblance to a scale.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.
Squamozygomatic
(Squa`mo*zyg`o*mat"ic) a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the squamosal and
zygomatic bones; — applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls. — n. A squamozygomatic
bone.
