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Is squama a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word squama is a Scrabble US word. The word squama is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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Is squama a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word squama is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

SQUAMA,

5-letter words (1 found)

AQUAS,

4-letter words (8 found)

AMAS,AMUS,AQUA,AUAS,MAAS,MASA,MASU,SAMA,

3-letter words (14 found)

AAS,AMA,AMU,AUA,MAA,MAS,MUS,QUA,SAM,SAU,SMA,SUM,SUQ,UMS,

2-letter words (7 found)

AA,AM,AS,MA,MU,UM,US,

You can make 31 words from squama according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of squama

squama

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin squāma (“scale”). Doublet of squame.

Noun

squama (plural squamae or squamas)

  1. (medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
  2. (botany) The bract of a deciduous spike.
  3. (botany) Any scaly bracted leaf.
  4. (entomology) A calypter.

Derived terms

  • squamation

Related terms

  • squamous

Further reading

  • “squama”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskwa.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ama
  • Hyphenation: squà‧ma

Etymology 1

From Latin squāma.

Noun

squama f (plural squame)

  1. (zoology) scale (keratin piece covering the skin of reptiles and fishes)
    Synonym: scaglia
  2. (anatomy) squama
Derived terms
  • squamare
  • squamoso

Etymology 2

Inflected form of the verb squamare.

Verb

squama

  1. inflection of squamare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

Probably related to squālus (“filthy, foul”) or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskʷaː.ma/, [ˈs̠kʷäːmä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskwa.ma/, [ˈskwäːmä]

Noun

squāma f (genitive squāmae); first declension

  1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
  2. (by extension) flake; any item shaped like a scale

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • squāmātus
  • squāmeus
  • squāmifer / squāmiger
  • squāmōsus
  • squāmula

Descendants

References

  • “squama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “squama”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • squama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org