Lewis Short
(adjective) : squāmĕus, a, um, id.
* Scaly (poet.).
* Lit.: anguis,Verg. G. 2, 154: terga (anguium),id. A. 2, 218: membrana chelydri,Ov. M. 7, 272.—*
* Transf.: clipeatus et auro Squameus, in golden scales (of a coat of mail), Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 522.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary