squāmĕus

a, um, adj.

id.

I. scaly (poet.).
I. Lit.: anguis, Verg. G. 2, 154: terga (anguium), id. A. 2, 218: membrana chelydri, Ov. M. 7, 272.—*
II. Transf.: clipeatus et auro Squameus, in golden scales (of a coat of mail), Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 522.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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