squamate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ˈskweɪmət/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any reptile of the order Squamata; a lizard, snake or mosasauroid.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Covered in scales. not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

squamates plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).
词源 2
From Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).
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