squama

Signification (Anglais)

1. A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
2. The bract of a deciduous spike.
3. Any scaly bracted leaf.
4. A calypter.

Concepts

écaille

squame

Synonymes

scale

squame

scales

alula

scum

scurf

aileron

antisquama

calypter

lobulus

squamula

squamule

antitegula

flat bone

scute

fish scale

lamella

leafage

Traductions

escama

schub

squama

schilfer

escama

kabuk

escata

pul gibi şey

φολίδα

λέπιο

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from Latin squāma (“scale”). Doublet of squame.