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squamosal en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the platelike part of the temporal bone

Deriveds

parietosquamosal · squamosal bone · episquamosal · frontosquamosal · squamosal suture · subsquamosal · epiparietosquamosal · quadratosquamosal · tympanosquamosal · sphenosquamosal · petrosquamosal

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squamous

squamosal en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The platelike part of the temporal bone
   • In the absence (e.g., Figs. 31 b, 33, 44, 45, etc.) of the intertemporal and supratemporals, the parietals articulate directly with the squamosals and postorbitals; in the Chelonia (Fig. 30) and Crocodilia, also directly with the pterygoids. Fused in most late reptiles (e.g., Figs. 69, 72). 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles:

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