A small, thin, flat piece of something, like a fish scale or a piece of skin.
Squame can make people think of fish, reptiles, or skin.
Examples:
The fish has shiny squames.
I found a squame from a lizard.
The squame is on the ground.
I don't want to touch the squame!
The dragon's squames were as big as plates.
The squame was so shiny, I wanted to keep it.