English Explanatory Dictionary

desquamate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To remove the scales from, to scale; (less narrowly) to peel.
  2. To come off in the form of scales, to scale.

Word forms

desquamate desquamates desquamating desquamated

Etymology

First attested in 1740; borrowed from Latin dēsquāmātus, perfect passive participle of dēsquāmō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- (“off”) + squāma (“a scale”) + -ō (“verb-forming suffix”).

Related words

desquamation desquamative desquamatory desquame
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