squāmōsus (-mossus), a, um, adj. [squama], full of or covered with scales, scaly, squamous (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
- I. Lit.: pecus (i. e. pisces), Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 5: soleamne esse avis squamossas? id. Men. 5, 5, 19: draco, Verg. G. 4, 408; cf.: venter cerastae, Prop. 3 (4), 22, 27: orbes (anguis), Ov. M. 3, 41: greges (piscium), Col. 8, 17, 2: agmina, Prud. στεφ. 5, 144: belua, Sen. Hippol. 1048: pellis, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 263.
- II. Transf.: thorax, Prud. Ham. 423: smaragdi, Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 72.
Poet.: lingua, stiff, rough, Luc. 4, 325.