Definition of "squamiform" []

• Having the shape of scales or a scale. (adjective)

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• "Applying this test to the known species of _Galathea, _ we perceive that the structure of the integument upon the arms, independent of the marginal spines, exhibits a squamiform appearance, but that the scales, which characterise the structure, possess features peculiar to each species."
• "The Lagerstraemia has petals none, or minute squamiform."
• "A very singular MELALEUCA, somewhat allied to M. HUGELII, Endl.: but extremely different in the very minute squamiform leaves of the copious slender branchlets, from which they fall and leave the bleached slender branchlets full of little pits or cavities in which the leaves had been, as it were, sunk.] 5TH AUGUST. —"