And we'll never find out whether the last thought to pass through the mind of the captain of the Thresher was, It's squamous and rugose, or simply, It's squamous!).
Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale
skwa'mus (1) flat, scalelike: (2) pertaining to flat, thin cells that form the free surface of some epithelial tissues Back