squame

Meaning

  1. The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
  2. A flake of dead skin tissue.
  3. A squamous (scale-like) cell.
  4. A bony plate.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/skweɪm/
Etymology

From Latin squāma. Doublet of squama.

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