OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 17199

squamous

/ˈskweɪ.məs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escamoso
Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.
I might call it gigantic - tentacled - proboscidian - octopus-eyed - semi-amorphous - plastic - partly squamous and partly rugose - ugh!
In the squamous heads of Scabius, Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Pinea, and in the Scaly composure of the Oak-Rose, which some years most aboundeth.