Lewis Short
(adjective) : squāmōsus (-mossus), a, um, squama
* Full of or covered with scales, scaly, squamous (poet. and in post - Aug. prose).
* Lit.: pecus (i. e. pisces),Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 5: soleamne esse avis squamossas?id. Men. 5, 5, 19: draco,Verg. G. 4, 408; cf.: venter cerastae,Prop. 3 (4), 22, 27.orbes (anguis),Ov. M. 3, 41: greges (piscium),Col. 8, 17, 2: agmina, Prud. στεφ. 5, 144: belua,Sen. Hippol. 1048: pellis,Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 263.
* Transf.: thorax,Prud. Ham. 423: smaragdi,Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 72.— Poet.: lingua,stiff, rough,Luc. 4, 325.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary