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Squamella
- - A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.
Squamipen
- - Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.
Squamosal
- - Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone. (b) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone. -- n. The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone corresponding to it, in many of the lower vertebrates. See Temporal bone, under Temporal.
Squanders
- verb - spend extravagantly;
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away;
Square Up
- verb - even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
- make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
- settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument"
Squarrose
- - Ragged or full of loose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as: (a) (Bot. & Zool.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem. (b) (Bot.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; -- said of a leaf. (c) (Zool.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell.
Squashier
- adjective - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread"
- like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness