squama
/S K W AA1 M AH0/noun
- 1
(medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
- 2
(botany) The bract of a deciduous spike.
- 3
(botany) Any scaly bracted leaf.
- 4
(entomology) A calypter.
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