Squame

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Squame \Squame\ (skw[=a]m), n. [L. squama scale.]
     1. A scale. [Obs.] "Iron squames." --Chaucer.
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     2. (Zool.) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a
        crustacean.


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