Usually means: Thin, flat plate; scale, flake.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word squama:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. squama: Merriam-Webster
  2. squama: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. squama: Collins English Dictionary
  4. squama: Vocabulary.com
  5. squama: Wordnik
  6. squama: Wiktionary
  7. squama: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. squama: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. squama: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. squama: Dictionary.com
  11. Squama: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Squama: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. squama: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. squama: Rhymezone
  15. Squama: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. squama: FreeDictionary.org
  17. squama: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. squama: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. squama: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Squama: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. squama: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. squama: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Squama: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See squamae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (squama)

noun:  (medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
noun:  (botany) The bract of a deciduous spike.
noun:  (botany) Any scaly bracted leaf.
noun:  (entomology) A calypter.

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