squamous

adjective3

1. •
   Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.

   • In the squamous heads of Scabius, Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Pinea, and in the Scaly composure of the Oak-Rose, which some years most aboundeth. — 1658
2. •
   Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells that are wider than their height (flat and scale-like).
3. •
   Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal