escama
Meaning
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- (feminine) scale (of a fish or reptile)
- (feminine) flake (of dead skin)
Concepts
scale
flake
fish scale
squama
grudge
suspicion
dirt
excrements
filth
fish scales
leafage
scurf
Hyphenated as
es‧ca‧ma
Pronounced as (IPA)
/esˈkama/
Etymology
From Old Spanish escama, from Latin squāma. Cognate with English squama and squame.
New
escamar
- to remove the scales from
- to make distrustful
- (colloquial) to frighten
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