a. Bot. Also squamm-. [ad. mod.L. squāmulōs-us: see SQUAMULA and -OSE.] Furnished or covered with small scales.
1846. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 174. Veil … thickly covered with the same powder as the pileus, but more distinctly squammulose.
1857. M. J. Berkeley, Cryptog. Bot., 418. Many other forms are assumed by the crusts of Lichens;… the squamulose form an analogous hypertrophy.
1887. W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 3. Stem … soft, white, squamulose on the surface.
