Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Squamose \Squa*mose"\ (? or ?), Squamous \Squa"mous\, [L.
   squamosus, fr. squama a scale: cf. F. squameux.]
   1. Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a
      scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous
      epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal
      bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a
      scale.

   2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.