Definition of Squillae

1. squilla [n] - See also: squilla

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squillae

squigglers
squiggles
squigglier
squigglies
squiggliest
squiggling
squiggly
squilgeed
squilgeeing
squilgees
squill
squill-gee
squill-gees
squilla
squillae (current term)
squillas
squillion
squillionaire
squillionaires
squillions
squillitic
squills
squinancy
squinancywort
squinantic
squinch
squinched
squinches
squinching

Literary usage of Squillae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"In the dead animals, however, the very few instances in which I have been enabled to open their stomachs, squillae or shrimps «те the only substances ..."

2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1883)
"When squillae had passed by a very common corruption into squilla, pina was suggested in its place, and afterwards found its way into the text. ..."

3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"The debris of squillae have been found in its stomach. Bloch, in his Systema, has detached the genus ..."

4. A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United by Alexander Agassiz, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1888)
"On examining the sieves, the more common surface forms, Calanus, Sagitta, annelid larvae, hydroid medusae, and squillae embryos, were wanting, ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1820)
"The whole substance had an appearance very similar to the horns or antennae of shrimps, fragments of which they might possibly be, as the squillae are very ..."

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