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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈskweɪmət/

形容詞

squamate (not comparable)

1. (chiefly zoology) Covered in scales.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 45:

     The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.

同意語

• scaly, squamose; see also Thesaurus:scaly

派生語

名詞

squamate (plural squamates)

1. Any reptile of the order Squamata; a lizard, snake or mosasauroid.
   • 2009 February 6, Michael J. Benton, “The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time”, in Science‎, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 728–732:

     In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates, and many other modern groups radiated substantially.