Squamous

[Britney]

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.

[Sommer]

Squamous cells are cells that are shaped like fish scales (= small flat pieces on the skin) :