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

P. umb. even, soon squamulose, greyish as is also the flesh; g. arcuato-adfixed, hoary; s. stuffed, equal, almost glabrous.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 5-8 cm. expanded, obtuse, squamulose, dark brown, cracked into patches, flesh like that of stem saffron-red when broken; g. free; s. 6-8 cm. bulbous, whitish, ring rather loose; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 3-5 cm. deformed, viscid, soon dry and squamulose, brownish-grey; g. broad, distant, white then glaucous; s. 4-7 cm. polished, white or tinged yellow; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Differs from T. flavobrunneum in squamulose apex of stem. fulvellum, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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