squamationn.
Zoology.
The condition or character of being covered with scales; a special mode or form of this.
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squamoseness1727
squamosity1775
squamousness1775
squamation1881
1881 Nature No. 627. 2/1 A Palæoniscoid fish showing a condition of squamation almost identical with that of Polyodon.
1889 H. A. Nicholson & R. Lydekker Man. Palæontol. (ed. 3) II. 987 A fish from the Muschelkalk..has been made the type of the genus Prohalecites on account of peculiar features in its squamation.
1900 Nature 20 Sept. 507/1 Eurynotus..still retains the palæoniscid squamation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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