squamulose

American  

[skwam-yuh-lohs, skwey-myuh-] / ˈskwæm yəˌloʊs, ˈskweɪ myə- /

adjective

1. furnished or covered with tiny scales.

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squamulose British  

/ ˈskweɪ-, ˈskwæmjʊˌləʊs, -ˌləʊz /

adjective

1. (esp of plants or their parts) covered with minute scales

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Etymology

Origin of squamulose

1840–50; < Latin squāmula small scale ( squām ( a ) scale + -ula -ule ) + -ose ¹

Example Sentences

Jasonis, Cke. and Mass. P. 3-5 cm., camp. then expanded, umb., yellow, disc tawny, papillate; g. adnate; s. 5-7 cm. coloured like pileus, squamulose up to torn ring; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Pileus viscid when moist, innately fibrillose or squamulose, but not broken up.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 2-3 cm. convex then plane, even, viscid, granular, rufescent or yellowish; g. free; s. 2-3 cm.; s. dry, whitish floccosely squamulose up to ring; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 2-5 cm. exp. umb. glabrous, livid or pale tan; g. adnexed, greyish-white; s. 5-9 cm. livid, undulate, base white-strigose, apex white squamulose; sp. 7-8 � 4-5.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. exp. even, glabrous; s. hollow, rigid, cylindrical, squamulose; g. subdecur. crowded.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George