| squarroso-dentate | <botany> Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; said of a leaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| squarrulose | <botany> Somewhat squarrose; slightly squarrose. Origin: Dim. Of squarrose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squash | <zoology> An American animal allied to the weasel. Origin: Cf. Musquash. <botany> A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, C. Moschata, and the great winter squash, C. Maxima, but the distinctions are not clear. Squash beetle, a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus, or Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines. Origin: Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. Asquash, raw, green, immaturate, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squat | <zoology> The angel fish (Squatina angelus). 1. The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground. 2. A sudden or crushing fall. 3. <chemical> A small vein of ore. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. 4. <zoology> Squat snipe, the jacksnipe; called also squatter. (10 Mar 1998) |
| squaterole | <zoology> The black-bellied plover. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squatter | 1. One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title. "In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were tolerated to an extent now unknown." (Macaulay) 2. <zoology> See Squat snipe, under Squat. (10 Mar 1998) |
| squaw | <ethnology> A female; a woman; in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup. Origin: Massachusetts Indian squa, eshqua; Narragansett squaws; Delaware ochqueu, and khqueu; used also in compound words (as the names of animals) in the sense of female. (10 Mar 1998) |
| squawberry | <botany> A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squawk | To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly. <zoology> Squawking thrush, the missel turush; so called from its note when alarmed. 1. Act of squawking; a harsh squeak. 2. <zoology> The American night heron. 3. <zoology> Squawk duck, the bimaculate duck (Anas glocitans). It has patches of reddish brown behind, and in front of, each eye. (10 Mar 1998) |
| squawroot | <botany> A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States. Synonym: cancer root. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squawweed | <botany> The golden ragwort. (10 Mar 1998) |
| squeak | 1. To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak. "Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch?" (Addison) "Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the "squeaking pigs" of Homer." (Pope) 2. To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess. "If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him." (Dryden) Origin: Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. Sqvaka to croak, Icel. Skvakka to give a sound as of water shaken in a bottle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squeaker | 1. One who, or that which, squeaks. 2. <zoology> The Australian gray crow shrile (Strepera anaphonesis); so called from its note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squealer | 1. One who, or that which, squeals. 2. <zoology> The European swift. The harlequin duck. The American golden plover. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squeamish | Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties. "Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish." (Hudibras) "His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain The men of squeamish taste to entertain." (Southern) "So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven." (M. Arnold) Synonym: Fastidious, dainty, overnice, scrupulous. See Fastidious. Origin: OE. Squaimous, sweymous, probably from OE. Sweem, swem, dizziness, a swimming in the head; cf. Icel. Svemr a bustle, a stir, Norw. Sveim a hovering about, a sickness that comes upon one, Icel. Svimi a giddiness, AS. Swimi. The word has been perhaps confused witrh qualmish. Cf. Swim to be dizzy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| squamous |
scaly; covered with scales.
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| squama |
or scale, a small scale above the halteres in the Diptera; it is composed of two pieces united at their edges, as in bivalve shells.
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a dermal skull bone located on the posterior "corners" of the skull. The squamosal may be primarily associated with the occiput or the skull table, or both. It often appears as a sort of transition bone which links these two major skull elements. It is closely associated with the quadrate and, in amniotes, with the temporal fenestra(e).
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A fan-shaped bone on either side of the braincase above the auditory bulla.
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| squalene |
oil produced in the liver of some sharks
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| SQ | pay someone and settle a debt |
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| SQ | be compatible with |
| SQ | cause to match, as of ideas or acts |
| SQ | (slang) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned |
| SQ | without evasion or compromise |
| SQ | characterized by honesty and fairness |
| SQ | (informal) leaving no balance |
| SQ | having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle |
| SQ | firmly and solidly |
| SQ | in a square shape |
| SQ | with honesty and fairness |
| SQ | in a straight direct way |
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