squamose

 Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.  [1913 Webster]

 Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.  [1913 Webster]