squama
Noun
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Noun
squama (plural squamas or squamae)
- (medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
- (botany) The bract of a deciduous spike.
- (botany) Any scaly bracted leaf.
- (entomology) calypter
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