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squamulose

[skwam-yuh-lohs, skwey-myuh-]

adjective

furnished or covered with tiny scales.

Origin:
1840–50; < Latin squāmula small scale (squām(a) scale + -ula -ule) + -ose¹

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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squamulose (ˈskwæmjʊˌləʊs, -ˌləʊz, ˈskweɪ-)

—*adj*
	(esp of plants or their parts) covered with minute scales

[C19: from Latin squāmula diminutive of squāma a scale]

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