• (n.) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.
Squam'u·la noun ; plural Squamulæ . [ Latin , dim. of squama a scale.] (Botany) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule. 
squamula One of the little hypogynous scales (flower in which the sepals, petals and stamens are inserted below the ovary) found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule (ne of a pair of tiny scales in a grass floret).
Calypter - a membranous flap that is located at the base of the wing in some species of fly.